Quotes About Prayer

El ingenuo dominico dice que también él ha pedido el permiso y se lo han negado. «Pero tú, ¿cómo lo has pedido?», le pregunta el jesuita. Y el dominico: «¿Puedo fumar mientras rezo?». Era obvio que le contestaran que no. En cambio, el jesuita preguntó «¿Puedo rezar mientras fumo?», y los superiores le dijeron que se podía rezar en cualquier circunstancia.

es cierto que, como decía Hegel, la lectura de los periódicos es la oración de la mañana del hombre moderno.

Such was their dream of happiness for this world; and for the next, you prayed to the Blessed Virgin, went to mass two or three times a year, and left everything else to the Higher Powers.

When we practice a rule of prayer, prayer gradually becomes a holy habit, something we do that is not dependent on feelings or moods or our ability to articulate well. It becomes central to our lives and strengthens our connections to God.

Just as we help our children expand their vocabularies by reading to them and engaging them in conversations, we expand our vocabularies of prayer by making other people's prayers our own. Hymnals, denominational prayer books, and books of prayers from Christian people in all cultures and time periods can enrich our own prayer lives as we hear new ways of expressing old needs or experience a fresh perspective of how to pray for a situation.

Veronica? Praise to Our Lady that you got

The companions might dress in Persian fashion, and Alexander himself might don the tiara and offer up a Davos-like prayer that all peoples and races under his new-world regime would be equal subjects.

We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.

Then, turning to his sister: Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother may not fall into sin on our account.

Quant au mode de prier, peu importe le nom, pourvu qu'il soit sincère. Tournez votre livre à l'envers et soyez à l'infini As for how you pray, the words do not matter if they are sincere. Turn your prayer book upside down and face the infinite.

Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there.

To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying.

Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother may not fall into sin on our account.

No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca

Time passed slowly, in indrawn breaths and captured prayers and creaks of the chair. Vianne watched the tiny black hands on the mantel clock click forward. She patted the baby's back in rhythm with the passing minutes. Finally

In the last few moments before dawn, Vianne sat near the mound of fresh-turned earth. She wanted to pray, but her faith felt far away, the remnant of another woman's life.

she'd prayed for more children. It had been difficult between them—not a lot, but a little—when Rachel had gotten pregnant with Ari.

Time and again, she had returned to God, pleading for help, promising her faith. She wanted to believe that she was neither alone nor in charge, but rather that her life was unfolding according to His plan, even if she couldn't see it.

She wanted to pray, but her faith felt far away, the remnant of another woman's life.

You must stay strong." "By believing in God." "Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous.