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..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.
I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.
I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word.
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!!
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.
The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.
Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.
People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.
When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.
Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.
You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.
You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.
I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.