Quotes About Prayer

El fanatismo, el temor, la esperanza, el ardiente debate, la oración callada, la generosidad ejemplar, la intolerancia estrecha de miras y la necesidad profunda de nuevas ideas, todo era como una epidemia que recorría febrilmente la superficie del minúsculo planeta Tierra.

A idéia de que Deus é um gigante barbudo de pele branca sentado no céu é ridícula. Mas se, com esse conceito, você se referir a um conjunto de leis físicas que regem o Universo, então claramente existe um Deus. Só que Ele é emocionalmente frustrante: afinal, não faz muito sentido rezar para a lei da gravidade!

Quite simply, if God knows me better than I know myself, what point is there [in] pretending I am other than I am before God? Prayer is not the place for pretended piety; prayer is the place for getting down to brass tacks. . . . Thus we might as well acknowledge our true state when we pray. We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.17

We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.17

We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.

prayer and persistence, the good Lord will provide.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

God will help you," Maggie said. "He's just waiting to be asked.

He was bitter about many things, but not about God. He still prayed constantly. Still went to church. Still reminded her that God loved her and was watching.

I've said this before, Lord, but I'm so sorry for all the stupid choices I've made. I want to start over, with your guidance. I can't afford to make mistakes now. Will you turn up the volume on your voice, and turn mine down? Will you give me that wisdom you promised if we ask?

This is all so tangled and so impossible, but God did the impossible tonight. He does it all the time. I'm so overcome by it that I can't formulate an elaborate prayer. I simply whisper, "Thank you.

I pray for my mother. That if she can't ever recover what she's lost or what she's losing, that she not feel like she's lost. I pray that we make her feel necessary and valued as long as possible. That she comes to know comfort, even if I can't provide it myself.

I pray for my children. That they stay safe and make good decisions. That they be happy, thoughtful, and caring human beings. That they have the strength to get up if they fall down.

I pray for my sister. That she be allowed to discover grace and find peace without drugs. That her hair grows. That some of her pain be driven from her and given to me because I think I can handle it. I pray for her kids. That they find they have a chance to grow up knowing they were loved.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

You know how to pray, don't you? Just put your hands together and hope.

But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms.

The Igor position on prayer is that it is nothing more than hope with a beat to it.

I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.

There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not aw a secret, but as a prayer.

Stay alive, stay safe is every mother's prayer, the same prayer that runs through her own head late at night whenever her twins are out on the town. Stay alive, stay safe.

Sed libera nos a malo. Latin. She frowned at him. Deliver us from evil.

We must rely on God. We must ask Him to make us strong, unafraid. To give us the strength to band together, to defeat these devils." She makes the sign of the cross. "God will guide us through this.