Quotes About Prayer

when it's a glorious day I pray and it's a glorious day when I pray

Pray on the shadowy hillsides of hardship and on the sunny highlands of happiness.

Some days my prayer is a rainfall of tears, other days the sunshine of joy, and sometimes it's a sheltering umbrella — but no matter what I'm weathering in my life, my prayer is first and always the infinite horizon of gratitude.

The candle of prayer answers the darkness.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

When the people look like ants — pull, When the ants look like people — pray.

A smile is as good as a prayer...

Dear Father," she prayed, "please take care of this for me. Don't let me have to go anywhere or do anything with that MacCallummore man, please, dear Lord." When she arose she looked about her with eyes that were touched with peace again. Now she mustn't just sit here and brood over this thing. She had given it into God's hands, and that was all there was to do at present.

Dear Lord, here is something again that I don't know how to manage and can't do anything about. Won't You please take over, and help me to trust it utterly to You? Show me just what to say and do.

It would be well, in our praying, to sometimes lift the head and see whether the answer to our prayers is not shining in the heavens or standing joy-clothed beside us, or even lying at our feet waiting to be recognized.

The Lord cares for His own, even in little things." "Do you mean nothing ever happens against your wishes and prayers?" asked Eden almost breathlessly. "Oh, no, but I mean that when you leave it all to Him, He works it out marvelously. I don't mean it always comes the way you have planned it, or want it even, but that if it doesn't, you know it will work out in the end to be even better than you wanted, if you are patient and rest in Him.

If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was true that God always acted in one's best interest, you would receive whatever He wanted you to receive anyway.Prayer, thought Allison, was a dreadfully unfair, rather unsportsmanlike affair, with all the advantages on one side.

Graham committed himself to an hour of prayer and Bible study each day after breakfast. He began with five chapters of Psalms, he claimed, to know how to get along with God, and one chapter of Proverbs to know how to get along with other people. That way he read each book through once a month.

What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.1

In the words of E.M. Bounds in his book, Power Through Prayer: What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.

Unlike the traditional prayers that we may have used in the past, however, this technique of prayer has no words. It is based in the silent language of human emotion. It invites us to feel gratitude and appreciation, as if our prayers have already been answered. Through this quality of feeling, the ancients believed that we're given direct access to the power of creation: the Spirit of God.

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die. Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Obviously, not everyone in Texas attends church for purely social or nostalgic reasons. There are still plenty of people here who feel the need to advertise their allegiance to God by telling me that they are good Christians, by continuously posting prayer pictures of Jesus on Facebook, or by telling me that no matter how ethically I live, I will surely go to Hell if I don't accept Jesus Christ into my heart.

Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would never again be loved In the old days you would have turned monk With shame you catch yourself praying And jeer your laughter crackles like hellfire Its sparks gild the depths of your life Which like a painting in a dark museum You approach sometimes to peer at closely

T?t c? chúng ta ??u ?i tìm ng??i duy nh?t có th? mang l?i cho ta cái mà ta thi?u trong cu?c s?ng. Và n?u không th? nào tìm ???c ng??i ?y thì chúng ta ch? còn cách c?u nguy?n ?? ng??i ?y s? tìm th?y ta

It is literature,' said Kafka smiling. 'Flight from reality.' 'So poetry is lies?' 'No. Poetry is a condensate, an essence. Literature, on the other hand, is a relaxation, a means of pleasure which alleviates the unconscious life, a narcotic.' 'And poetry?' 'Poetry is exactly the opposite. Poetry is an awakening.' 'So poetry tends towards religion.' 'I would not say that. But certainly to prayer.