Quotes About Prayers

To be "defiled" by empire is to be robbed of a distinct identity that permits freedom against dominant culture. "Fasting" as alert abstention may be the order of the day that will make the asking of prayers more serious and compelling.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

They [the Puritans] disallowed of the cathedral mode of worship; of singing their prayers, and of the antiphone or chanting of the Psalms by turns, which the ecclesiastical commissioners in King Edward the Sixth's time advised the laying aside. Nor did they approve of musical instruments, as trumpets, organs, etc.

en los aeropuertos se ven besos más sinceros que en las bodas. Y los muros de los hospitales han escuchado oraciones más reales que las iglesias.

A few years ago we discussed when Sabbath truly begins. When is the precise moment of the setting sun? So I made a rug weaving together black and deep purple. When the light faded enough, and one could no longer tell the difference between the two colors, then Sabbath had begun and prayers could be made.

He needs your prayers.' 'Is he then an unhappy man?' Poirot said: 'So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.' The nun said softly: 'Ah, a rich man …' Hercule Poirot said nothing – for he knew there was nothing to say …

Contrast Moses, eved HaShem par excellence, who is described in the Shabbat Amidah prayers as "Moses will be happy with the gift of his portion because a faithful servant You have called him."10 Happy. A servant.

Oh come, please come, to the Poor Mouth Fair Where the Saints kneel round in their underwear And say out prayers that most need saying For needful sinners who've forgotten praying; And in every alcove and niche you spy The living dead who envy the long since gone Who never wished to die.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me.

My mother supported me when I wanted to change my career and wanted to come to Mumbai from Delhi. She supported me when I wanted to be an actor. It is her prayers, blessings and strength because of which I am here today.

what is the use of a God who does no miracles and answers no prayers?

Even if we allow the dubious luxury of arbitrarily conjuring up a terminator to an infinite regress and giving it a name, simply because we need one, there is absolutely no reason to endow that terminator with any of the properties normally ascribed to God: omnipotence, omniscience, goodness, creativity of design, to say nothing of such human attributes as listening to prayers, forgiving sins and reading innermost thoughts.

To adapt Alice's comment on her sister's book before she fell into Wonderland, what is the use of a God who does no miracles and answers no prayers? Remember Ambrose Bierce's witty definition of the verb 'to pray': 'to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy'.

Deists differ from theists in that their God does not answer prayers, is not interested in sins or confessions, does not read our thoughts and does not intervene with capricious miracles.

possibility is far more frightening that impossibility ... If we do, in fact, have to deal with a force beyond ourselves that involves itself in our lives, then we may have to move into action on those previously impossible dreams ... we discount answered prayers ... call it coincidence ... call it luck ... call it anything but what it is -- the hand of God ... activated ... when we commit to our own soul

Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? ... Answered prayers deliver us back to our own hand. This is not comfortable

Compliments of the season to you, and may the acid rain fall on your joint and anointed heads.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.

And when people would say to Mom, "I'll include you in my prayers," it gave her great solace. It wasn't a platitude for her—when she knew people were praying for her, it was something concrete and immense.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful

a word, in times of public calamity, when the flood of God's wrath comes rolling in upon a nation, like waves irresistibly, at the wide breach which the high crying sins of the times make, and the few righteous that are found upon the place labour to stand in the gap, by their prayers, begging the life of the nation, but God will not hear, even then sincerity will be a sweet support while we share with others in the common calamity

O take heed of this: pride turns an ordinance into an idol. God accepts our fasts and prayers when used for humilia tion, but abhors them when we bring them for our justification.