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Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.
Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!
The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?
My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.
I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.
When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'
Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.
What a marvelous and wonderful thing is # prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in # Heaven .
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.
A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.
God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.
It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.
All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.
In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.