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The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!
Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?
I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.
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.
...we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.
If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.
I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.
Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
If you're going to hope for a change, you'd better start to pray for a change. If you're just hoping, you ain't going anywhere.
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive.
Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!
When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.
So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.
Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there.
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate.
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.
There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.
The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.
Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.
I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.
I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
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.
When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.
My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!
We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.
If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.
In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."
The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.