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Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.
It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.
If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.
When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.
We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.
People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.
You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.
God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.
Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.
My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.
Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.
Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.
I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.
Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.
The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy.
The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.
When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.
I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.
Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.