Quotes About Prayer

Give thanks to God for what you are now, and keep praying and fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

Cuando llora el corazón sólo Dios escucha, el dolor se eleva desde el alma. Corta el silencio una pequeña oración. Una lágrima en mis ojos, el corazón llora en silencio. Y cuando el corazón está en silencio, el alma grita Dios mío, ahora estoy completamente solo Hazme fuerte... para que ya no tema. Es grande el dolor y no hay hacia donde correr. Ya no me queda fuerza. Cuando llora el corazón, el tiempo se detiene. SAMUEL ALBAZ

I fell asleep praying that Donald Trump would announce he was planning to become a woman.

I fell asleep praying that Donald Trump would announce he was planning to become a woman. Surprisingly,

Start praying like this and you'll see. Not "some way to sleep with her" - but a way to stop wanting to. Not "some way to get rid of him" - but a way to stop trying. Not "some way to save my child" - but a way to lose fear. Redirect your prayers like that, and watch what happens.

The antidote to a culture of self- promoting leaders is one where leaders – and everyone else – repent often and forgive often, delighting themselves in the Lord, praying and praising him for the glory of his wonderful grace. A culture, therefore, in which leaders can lead out of weakness, no longer needing to be impressive or having to prove themselves to receive praise and affirmation from people.

Spiritual fitness was important, too. I never allowed myself to forget who was in command as I went through these paces. In the journal I kept, the final words in each entry were the same every day: "Thank you, God, for one more day." No matter how bad things would get, I'd never forget to tell Him that.

If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it's shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I've never seen it since, but that doesn't matter. My soul is in the likeness of a jagged peak with a rock like a man standing on its summit, and snags of rock shaped like trolls along its spine. Screes defend it, although it's not quite inaccessible if you know the way up.

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.

Lighten up" (don't) turn prayer into a work but listen for God and let oneself be surprised. Overly rigid adherence to a spiritual direction built around formal liturgical adherence and highly structured prayer time can work against the sanctification of the ordinary. Christ is effectively imprisoned, to be visited at stated times and otherwise ignored".

Dear God, help me pay attention! Dear God, help me keep my mouth shut! Dear God, let me put myself out of the way! Dear God, let me be wholly present to this person, your child!

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

As a devout Baptist, she believed it was a sin to pray for anything for yourself. You ought to pray only for strength to bear whatever the Lord saw fit to send you, she thought. I was never able to follow this advice, for although I would often feel a sense of uneasiness over the tone of my prayers, I was the kind of person who prayed frantically-"Please, God, please, please, PLEASE let Ross MacVey like me better than Mavis.

Alone all day, Juniper would remember the animals and places he loved, and hold them in his own heart before the great Heart that made them. He was learning to find quietness inside himself. He was learning to pray.

Since Husk's downfall, Brother Fir had quietly and sensibly taken control of the situation. He had told the islanders of the long ago time when a squirrel king had committed murder and sacrifice in that chamber. He had opened it, blessed it, filled it with candlelight, watched, prayed, and sung in it, night and day, cleansing it of its past. It was now the Chamber of Candles, a place of prayer and peace.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.

Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.

We pray, give us this day our daily bread—not our daily caneton à la presse. Luxury should be the détente after work, the riot after abstinence, one should not become used to it.

She looks up at the mountain and wonders which god answered her prayers, wonders if she prayed them.

Let him grow up, I was thinking the whole time. That's an old prayer. It comes in every language.

Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is letting God talk to you." —Yogi Bhajan

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.