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It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.
If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.
The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.
Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen.
God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.
Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.
Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.
I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.
I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind
Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.
Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ
When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.
I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.
We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.