Quotes About Prayer

I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions, and that we need only to ask repeatedly and a little humbly, in order to receive this answer. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

On his own, he was lost. On his knees, he knew he was found.

Let us pray for their spirits as they join StarClan.

Smallear heaved himself to his paws. "StarClan save me from overenthusiastic

Prayer illuminates the difference between knowing God's will and guessing at it.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

There is a certain nonacquiescence, a noncooperativeness that is the common outgrowth of a life of contemplative prayer.

Maya didn't have much more distance in her. Still, she ran. Praying. She knew she should be praying for a church so that she could fall down on her knees and find some solace. But she didn't want to believe in a God who could take away a barely grown boy just trying to do some good.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm.

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.

was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No.' . . . The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world. . . . Only a branch shall survive. . . . They had to accept it . . . If they feel and suffer they will find the way—beachareth hajamin—in the fullness of time . . . I pray that we may preserve our national unity, for it is all we have.

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

We have the scanners, we have MaherSter. Now, you stop poling your horses and pray for the wicked."

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

When men cough or talk into their own hands, they are praying to their own bones, hoping to change their minds about something.

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You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.