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Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave
All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.
I am here in spirit with you and you are in my prayers. Remember God is with you, and have faith in the fact that this too shall pass.
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
I obtain my center by remembering to breathe when in a difficult situation. My daily routine includes prayer, workouts, and meditation.
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.
All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.
Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.
Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.
Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it.
I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.
The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.
Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer.
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.
Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.
In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?
Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.
By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.
Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.
The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.
Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.