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In the tabernacle of grace, all your obstacles will be tackled. Wake up to see it happen live. You are victorious in all things!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.
— Vishwas Chavan
Feel the energy, starting with your hands, and if you maintain the sensation of being connected to that energy as you pray, you can be more deeply immersed in your prayer. The reason is because the entire universe itself is composed of the energy you're feeling with your hands right now. When you maintain that feeling of connection with the universe as you pray for the great hopes and dreams cherished by your soul, you are broadcasting your prayer to the entire universe as your audience. If the whole universe is resonating with your dream and working with you to make your dream come true, wouldn't that lend great strength to you?
— Ilchi Lee, The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
Prayer allows you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.
— Elizabeth George, Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress
He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God’s time for the rest.
— Alexander MacLaren
Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.
— R.C. Sproul, Does Prayer Change Things?
Her brain was acutely damaged in the accident. When the doctor was coming out of the ICU, he feared.He made an evil prayer.“I am fine to live with her memories, I will settle myself with the verythought that she isn't anymore, happily and gently.But dear God, don’t make her lose her conscious,like a dead yet, living body. Coldness in the eyes,which I have seen filled with love and surprisewill kill me every day.I don’t want to die a new death every minute.Take her away,Or give her back in whole.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Prayer is like a business , the you put in more input the greater the output becomes.
— Osunsakin Adewale
God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Now get going. You'll find a way of calm through.""And you, Mael?""I'll drop in later. I've things for you to do, Withal. But for now," he faced inland, "I'm going to beat a god senseless.
— Steven Erikson
Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.
— Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
Pray for good.Pray for happy.And always pray for Mom.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Prayer is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The next time you’re waiting, redeem the time through prayer. You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish.
— Lori Hatcher
I felt sorry for the inhabitants and went into the forest to admonish the wolf in God's name not to eat any more sheep. I called him, he came—and do you know what his answer was? 'Francis, Francis,' he said, 'do not destroy God's prescribed order. The sheep feeds on grass, the wolf on sheep—that's the way God ordained it. Do not ask why; simply obey God's will and leave me free to enter the sheepfolds whenever I feel the pinch of hunger. I say my prayers just like Your Holiness. I say: "Our Father who reignest in the forests and hast commanded me to eat meat, Thy will be done. Give me this day my daily sheep so that my stomach may be filled, and I shall glorify Thy name. Great art Thou, Lord, who hast created mutton so delicious. And when the day cometh that I shall die, Grant, Lord, that I may be resurrected, and that with me may be resurrected all the sheep I have eaten—so that I may eat them again!"' That, Brother Leo, is what the wolf answered me.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis
The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.
— John Berger, Why Look at Animals?
The grace of prayer is an act of seeking to communicate with divine power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.
— Todd Stocker
... I am not the author of my prayers; when they come, they come from God.
— Lauren F. Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
Pray more, worry less.
— Surgeo Bell
Every prayer victory makes it easier to believe the next time.
— Lori Hatcher
Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...
— Katie Kiesler, Because I Love You
Prayer enables you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.
— Elizabeth George, Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress
One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him, you build on it.
— Stormie Omartian, Just Enough Light for the Step I'm On
Prayer is talking to God… but it’s so much more than that… it’s the beat of our heart, the attitude of our mind, the song on our tongue, the direction of our thoughts…
— Katie Kiesler, Because I Love You
God reveals possibilities through impossibilities"! EL
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Grace for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
We do not want to be beginners (at prayer), but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners all of our lives. --Thomas Merton
— Sandra Chambers, Lord, It's Boring in My Prayer Closet: How to Revitalize Your Prayer Life
When your prayers aren’t answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart Devotional
If fretting was an Olympic sport, I’d own the gold medal
— Lori Hatcher
Prayer is the key that unlocks all doors.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God, change the burden of my heart to be like a gentle rain which falls equally on all
— AbdulAziz Mohammed
If you feel completely satisfied, you have hit the right answer, coz if not? you may have missed something, It could be the answer itself or it could be both your prayer and the answer!
— Bradley B. Dalina
Lord, I thank you for answering my prayers at the right time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we can obtain and seek no sympathy from any living creature, and which yet we cannot, or will not wholly crush, we often naturally seek relief in poetry—and often find it, too—whether in the effusions of others, which seem to harmonize with our existing case, or in our own attempts to give utterance to those thoughts and feelings in strains less musical, perchance, but more appropriate, and therefore more penetrating and sympathetic, and, for the time, more soothing, or more powerful to rouse and to unburden the oppressed and swollen heart.
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.
— Elizabeth George, Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress
It is Jesus that The Proverbs 31 Lady seeks when she dreams of happiness; He is waiting for her when nothing else she finds satisfies her; He is the beauty to which she is so attracted to; it is He who provoked her with that thirst for fullness that will not let her settle for compromise; it is He who urges her to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in her heart her most genuine choices, the choices that others try to suppress.Do you desire to be that Lady of God? God desires a relationship with you. He's made this relationship possible by sending His Son. That inner void is filled through a relationship with the Lord. The place to start to fulfill the longing in your heart is to trust in the Lord for His salvation and allow the Holy Spirit to work within you to satisfy your thirst. As we go together to the well that never runs dry, I know the savior of our soul will meet us there. We will drink from the water of life He gives, the water that quenches our thirsty souls.
— Mary Maina, The Proverbs 31 Lady: Unveiling Her Secrets Before Saying I Do
God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition.
— Jim George
The gift of prayer is priceless gift.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Worrying never solve the issue.Pray your worries away.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
— Geoffrey Wood
We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.
— Katherine Marie Dyckman, Inviting the Mystic, Supporting the Prophet: An Introduction to Spiritual Direction
There is power in a Lady who trusts in God-a lady who has put all her eggs in God’s basket. Women possess some gift that touches the heart of God. This gift is so powerful that Jeremiah, the weeping prophet who was known for his great compassion found himself needing the intercession of women to tap into this power. The Lord asked Him to send for the women to let them take up wailing as God knew His ears are open to the cry of distressed women
— Mary Maina, The Proverbs 31 Lady: Unveiling Her Secrets Before Saying I Do
When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.
— Geoffrey Wood
That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that —just dreams, just play. She’d been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn’t, because she would never escape her need to love him.
— Geoffrey Wood, The God Cookie
If you think you are unworthy to pray, that thought is not coming from Jesus Christ. More than anything, He wants us to approach Heavenly Father, to have our prayers heard and answered.
— Toni Sorenson
Prayer will carry you to Judgment Day
—  it is your nourishment and your protection. In prayer you are closest to God. It is then that you develop your own personal relationship with God.
Self talk and self prayer: When you audible the first and correctly interpret, the white coats correct you in a nuthouse. When you audible the second and misinterpret, the dinner coats swear you to an oath in the White House. Does this make you nuts too? Then outfit your sanity seeking political asylum at my house.
— Brian Spellman
Stay in church, stay in prayer, stay in the Word, and stay in fellowship with other believers.
— Nancy Alcorn, Mercy Moves Mountains: Heart-Gripping Stories of God's Extraordinary Mercy and Grace to Troubled Young Girls
Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2
— Luana Ehrlich, One Night in Tehran
Centering our thoughts on God begins with what I like to call discovery. That is, when we discover a great truth about God, we begin to meditate on that truth until it captivates our whole thinking process. That in turn will lead to worship.If worship is based on meditation, and meditation is based on discovery, what is discovery based on? On time spent with God in prayer and the Word. It is sad that many view prayer primarily as a way to get things. We have lost sight of the companion aspect of prayer - of being still and aware of God's wonderful presence and just communing with Him there.
— John F. MacArthur Jr., Our Awesome God
Prayerful life, blessed life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The best time to seek God is when it's really hard to find the time because that's when we probably need Him the most.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
The person who prays and who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the word he desires to worship (in order to be more single-mindedly at the word’s disposal) will select with great care basic works for his studies which will observe the so-called exactitude of scholarship without losing sight of the most important exactitude, namely, the ordering of all thought toward prayer.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
In prayer, God doesn't guarantee the answer you want, but He does guarantee the answer you need.
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
Faith is where they learn about their God
—  but Prayer is where they explore Him.
True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about “knowing God,” they mean more than, “I understand what you’re saying about God,” but also, “It fits my experience of Him.
— Geoffrey Wood
Yes, I run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, I pray and I meditate as well. I just believe in the old saying “Nothing ventured, nothing gained”. Why I do this? Well, there is a deep-rooted imperfection in me which nested in my DNA and causes a linear interference that affects my consciousness. As a result I don’t feel at home at any religion and still I believe in God, the infinite energy of our creation.
— Nynke Visser
When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Imagination, outweighs it. But when they pray with ever increasing confidence, they see with an ever-increasing and youthful Imagination and such burgeoning of possibility causes even their Memory to be lightened and redeemed. The scales fall from their eyes and they wait on their Father with the same childlike wonder that watches a sunrise to see what might happen this time.
— Geoffrey Wood
All I daresay at this point is pray on it and pray hard. Then wait and listen for God's answer. I've learned in my years of living not to be impatient for answers when I pray. They don't come lickity-split.
— Marlene Banks, Son of a Preacherman
All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a man whistling a tune, when out of nowhere, first a harmony joins, then another, and then suddenly he is taken up into a whirlwind of music, countless instruments playing soaring complexities that the man’s whistling is, indeed, a part of, but now he begins to see how small a part; the longer he listens, he realizes that his is not the melody and where he had thought he was whistling alone, the truth had always been the music playing, though never before that moment heard, and now what had been noise becomes symphony.
— Geoffrey Wood
I have ascended to the highest in me, and look, the Word is towering above that. I have descended to explore my lowest depths, and I found Him deeper still.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
It's never too late to get down on your knees and pray.
— Delano Johnson, Words That Changed the World
Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account
— Doreen Virtue, Healing words from the Angels: 365 Daily Messages
God always keeps His promises.
— Jim George
With respect also to spiritual sloth, beginners are apt to be irked by the things that are most spiritual, from which they flee because these things are incompatible with sensible pleasure. For, as they are so much accustomed to sweetness in spiritual things, they are wearied by things in which they find no sweetness. If once they failed to find in prayer the satisfaction which their taste required (and after all it is well that God should take it from them to prove them), they would prefer not to return to it: sometimes they leave it; at other times they continue it unwillingly. And thus because of this sloth they abandon the way of perfection (which is the way of the negation of their will and pleasure for God's sake) for the pleasure and sweetness of their own will, which they aim at satisfying in this way rather than the will of God.And many of these would have God will that which they themselves will, and are fretful at having to will that which He wills, and find it repugnant to accommodate their will to that of God. Hence it happens to them that oftentimes they think that that wherein they find not their own will and pleasure is not the will of God; and that, on the other hand, when they themselves find satisfaction, God is satisfied. Thus they measure God by themselves and not themselves by God, acting quite contrarily to that which He Himself taught in the Gospel, saying: That he who should lose his will for His sake, the same should gain it; and he who should desire to gain it, the same should lose it.
— San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray, contrives to stir up these motions of impurity in its nature; and if the soul gives heed to any of these, they cause it great harm. For through fear of these not only do persons become lax in prayer—which is the aim of the devil when he begins to strive with them—but some give up prayer altogether, because they think that these things attack them more during that exercise than apart from it, which is true, since the devil attacks them then more than at other times, so that they may give up spiritual exercises.
— San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
Prayer is better than pills.
— Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
— E.M. Bounds
Wealth earned may disappear, beauty will fade, honor may recede and fame diminish; all that shall remain, is a soul that is humane within that would leave a trail in the thoughts of your loved ones;And even if that fails,your God in heaven above will never fail you or fail to rejoice in a life you've managed to live worthy of His praise.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
That," she said, "is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your window, or else the other cars wouldn't get the moon in their windows. But everyone gets the moon. It's not an option, to not have the moon in your window. You just see it. It's there."She bit her lip. The window in the office grew golden with late afternoon."Half the world can't see the moon," said the doctor."It's not the greatest example," said the rabbi.
— Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories
The act of prayer present an opportunity to communicate and connect to the Supreme being,God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account.
— Doreen Virtue, Healing with the Angels: How the Angels Can Assist You in Every Area of Your Life
Good soldiers know that if they don’t recognize who their enemy is, they are destined to lose the war. That is also true for those of us who battle in God’s army. Even though Jesus put the enemy under His feet and won the victory for us, we still must move into that victory. There are still battles to be fought in prayer.
— Stormie Omartian, Prayer Warrior: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory
The Women in Black are Israeli Jews who meet wall in Jerusalem. They meet every Friday, the Sabbath evening, and pray. They begin by singing Kaddish for all the Israelis killed in the fighting in Israel that week. When they are finished, they pause and read all the names. Then, they turn again to face the wall and sing Kaddish again, this time for all of Palestinians killed in the fighting that week, and they turn when they are finished and once again recite the litany of the names of those killed.
— Megan McKenna, And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection
I determined to learn to pray so that my experience conforms to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.
— Richard Foster
Scream silently in your prayer
—  remember the pain of others.
Everybody wants a miracle
—  we just don't want to be in a situation where we need one. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes what we perceive as our problem is really God setting us up to do something miraculous in our lives. It's about training ourselves to see those problems as opportunities so God can intervene.
It is in descending in the humble silence of prayer that we are able to ascend to the greatest heights of true human fulfillment in union with God.
— Mac MacKenzie
The simple act of praying and petitioning for prayers is in itself a blessing of God's grace and yet another step toward peace, forgiveness, healing, and salvation, regardless of the initial outcome of the prayer.
— Joe Campos
Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.
— Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April
Fasting is a weapon in a Christian's spiritual arsenal and you need to know when to use it
— Osunsakin Adewale
The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of men.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Christ sometimes delays His help so He may test our faith and energize our prayers. Our boat may be tossed by the waves while he continues to sleep, but He will awake before it sinks.
— Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert
The answer to our prayer may be coming, although we may not discern its approach. A seed that is underground during winter, although hidden and seemingly dead and lost, is nevertheless taking root for a later spring and harvest.
— Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert
What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way.
— Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box
If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing to what is noble, right and good; treating others with love and compassion...that's when true happiness is experienced. A genuine focus on selflessness cures all and creates an environment for true growth. It's the secret to every great relationship. We gain...when we give up self. Sacrificing one's selfish characteristics through diligent thought, meditation, prayer and action gives life to true love and abounding joy.~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
True saints of God have endured lengthy times of patient waiting with no reply, not because their prayers were prayed without intensity, nor because God did not accept their pleas. They were required to wait because it pleased Him who is sovereign and who gives "according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13)
— Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert
Grandpa had made the Lord seem so real, I wouldn't of been surprised if he'd said good night to Him. But after a long pause he just said a-men.
— Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.
— Davis Bunn
Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.
— Donna Pyle
God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.
— Frank C. Laubach
God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.
— Davis Bunn, Lion of Babylon
Ain't the best prayin' jest bein' with God and talkin' a while, like He's a good friend, stead a-like he runs a store and you've come in a-hopin' to git a bargain?
— Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.
— William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Prayers likewise your positive thoughts can be based on gratitude and love.
— Raphael Zernoff, All That Is
God loves a prayer of action.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
God's favorite type of prayer is action.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your positive thoughts are both the prayer, and the answer to your prayer.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I cannot come to thee but by thee, I never come from thee without thee
— Bernard
God listens and He responds. Sometimes His reply could be “I’m with you. Do not be afraid.” Sadly, many times we withdrew long before receiving the blessing He has for us, what He wants to show us; or we get disappointed because we don’t recognize His answer for not being what we expected.
— Yilda B. Rivera, Courage Under Fire
The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of man
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God has always heard and answered the prayers of all who cry on Him and call His name.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.
— Jacques Ellul
I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK beacuse he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that- he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
As I bathe myselfI pray with all beingsthat we can purify body and mindand clean ourselves inside and out.
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead. A Passion Most Pure
— Lessman, Julie
Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead.
— Lessman, Julie
What we call the Lord's prayer is actually the Disciple's Prayer because It says "Forgive us our trespasses" and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Pray, and let God worry.
— Martin Luther
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
— Jonathan Edwards
We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through genuine prayer, is to make as much room as possible, in ourselves and in the world, for the kingdom of God, so that its energies can go to work. All that we can show our contemporaries of the reality of God springs from contemplation: Jesus Christ, the Church, our own selves.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.
— Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal
Lucien had never prayed before, never imagined that there might be a deity listening who would be interested in what he had to say, so his supplication skills were a tad rusty.But now Lucien prayed.Please don’t take her from me just as I’ve found her. If you do, I’ll come for your ass.Any gods listening would do well to heed him. Lucien never made a promise that he couldn’t keep.
— Aimee Roseland, FANGIRL_15
One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.
— Origen, On Prayer
But never has the Call been so clearAs now, when death’s cool handEases my spirit from my fevered body--And I answer the Call of the Master—The Call to new Heights.
— Jessica Coupé, Life Abundant a 30 day devotional for Latter-day Saint Women
When I write that my own situation in those months of pain and decision can be described as prayer, I do not only recall that during that time I sometimes read the Psalms and they became my psalms, or that, as I have also mentioned, I occasionally cried “Jesus” and that name was my prayer, but I mean that I also at times would shout “Fuck!” and that was no obscenity, but a most earnest prayerful utterance.In the final analysis, no matter what the vocabulary of prayer, or where muteness displaces words in prayer, the content—what is communicated by a person in the world before God—in prayer is in each and every circumstance the same and it can be put plainly in one word: Help!That is the word of Gethsemane’s prayer; that is the word of the Lord’s Prayer; that is the prayer when Christ repeats the Twenty-second Psalm from the cross.It is the prayer of Christ interceding for all people, and it is the prayer of a human creature acknowledging God’s vocation in affirming the life which God has called into being.
— William Stringfellow, A second birthday
Satan is a relentless tormenter; you have to be a relentless Scripture Confessor until satan flees."- Tytenisha, Confessions of a Praying Woman
— Tytenisha L. Osgood, Confessions of a Praying Woman: Understanding the Basics of Answered Prayer through Scripture and Positive Confession
We do not pray to inform God of our needs, because He knows what we need before we ask.What is prayer like for you?Is it a religious ritual that you perform out of habit?Is it a spiritual discipline that you practice because you want to be the best Christian you possibly can be?Is it a mechanism by which you can bring your “shopping list” to God in order to have your needs met?Or are you running to meet your Lover, to commune with Him, hungering to find your joy in Him, and to be fulfilled in His presence?
— Bill Mills, Pursuing God
Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants
—  otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.
It’s fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.
— David Jeremiah, What Are You Afraid Of?
Prayer is to the soul what oxygen is to the heart life
— Lisa C.  Miller, Inspirations from Heaven's Gate
We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus’ name to our prayers.
— Bryan Chapell, Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus' Name
I'm praying about it. He knows what I want.
— Regina Jennings, Caught in the Middle
It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.
— Cyc Jouzy
As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.
— Elizabeth George, Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress
The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.
— Cyc Jouzy
i thank You God for most this amazingday: for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky; and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes(i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birthday of life and of love and wings: and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth)how should tasting touching hearing seeingbreathing any---lifted from the noof all nothing---human merely beingdoubt unimaginably You?(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)
— E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems
Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.
— Rich Mullins
Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t actually affect the external world. Not only is it ineffective, but it is also a very narcissistic practice… why would a 'God' change its 'Divine Plan' to accommodate any person’s wishes?
— David G. McAfee
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears. Topics: Prayer, MeditationI am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood. Topics: Salvation, AtonementWhen the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end. Topics: Satan, PrayerGod's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything. Topics: ScriptureDo not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God. Topics: The BibleAll that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.
— R.A. Torrey
Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
— William Gurnall
Flames burn so long as they are fed. Rivers rage so long as it rains. The sun rises so long as the earth rotates. Prayers are answered so long as they are uttered.Hope exists so long as there is a new day. Miracles never cease so long as there is faith. Love endures so long as kindness rules all actions. Dreams thrive so long as they are pursued. Never give up so long as you live.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.
— Lauren F. Winner, Girl Meets God
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was true that God always acted in one's best interest, you would receive whatever He wanted you to receive anyway.Prayer, thought Allison, was a dreadfully unfair, rather unsportsmanlike affair, with all the advantages on one side.
— Grace Metalious, Peyton Place
I believe a boy can have anything in life that he wants once he starts working for it. The main thing is not to give up. It makes no difference how tough things get, just bow your back, keep working, and put your heart and soul into it. As you go along your way, live a good clean life, don't hurt anyone or anything, and always be honest. It doesn't hurt to pray a little, too. If you do all those things-someday you'll have your pony and gun. You'll get help when you least expect it.
— Wilson Rawls
As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes nothing in particular".
— Peter Kreeft, Prayer: The Great Conversation: Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer
If we want to raise children who will remain faithful to Christ and His Church, they need to see fathers on their knees in prayer.
— Randy Hain, Journey to Heaven: A Road Map for Catholic Men
The power of prayer is priceless. Great things can be accomplished by prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your happiness is a prayer for me, therefore i will always pray for your happiness.
— Grats
My prayer will shake heaven to come down and kiss the earth... and I will pose somewhere to watch it drop some goodies that I will later gather for my greatness. Sela!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of "hows"; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!
— Peter Kreeft, Prayer: The Great Conversation: Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer
When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
1.01 MY PRAYERNo stone may turn when I walk,No being may pain when I talk,No man may dread of my knock,And this I ask of You to stock.[1]	- 1
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
Praying about everything in our lives and keeping quiet can keep us out of a lot of trouble.
— Amanda Penland
Sometimes you can just feel when someone has been praying for you. Whomever it is Thank you!!
— Amanda Penland
Prayer is the best resort and God will guide you to feel beautiful moments even if you're weak or strong, bury your soul into the arms of the love of God.
— Grats
With a shaking hand, he reached for his cock, and stroked it slowly from base to tip. Clearly, prayer time was over.
— Rosanna Leo, Predator's Refuge
Grant us a vision, Lord,      To see what we can achieve      To reach out beyond ourselves      To share our lives with others      To stretch our capabilities      To increase our sense of purpose      To be aware of where we can help      To be sensitive to your Presence      To give heed to your constant call.
— Kurt Bjorklund, Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer, 30 Day Sampler
I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.
— George Müller
Jesus is the perfect name!He who put away his fame!And persecuted in shame!That you will never be the same!It's because of you and I He came!Believe him or have yourself to blame!In the book of life, have your name!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.
— Shannon Celebi
I do not want God to give me what I want; I trust Him to give me what I need. The truth is, He is infinitely wiser than I am. If we always get what we ask for, I for one will cease to pray.
— Gary Inrig, The Parables: Understanding What Jesus Meant
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— Michelle Frost
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.
— J.I. Packer, Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God
It is simple. Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies....Behold, the night is coming. Prepare, for the time is at hand.
— Richard Llewellyn
Worry, my son?...I am not worried now and I never have or will. You must learn to tell worry from thought, and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life...and your life becomes a prayer, till you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.
— John Cassian, Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings
Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord--no matter what comes--and when He answers our prayers, no matter how he answers them--we give him praise.
— Serena B. Miller, Fearless Hope
As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a daily need to which I looked forward. If, for any reason, I were deprived of it, I was distressed as if I had been deprived of some life necessity, like water. I cannot say I changed. There tore through me a transformation with the force of a river, which, dammed up and diverted for a lifetime, bursts its way back to its true channel. I became what I was. I ceased to be what I was not.
— Whittaker Chambers, Witness
I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!
— George MacDonald
Through dreams, God awakened me; through prayers, God directed me.
— Teresa Odden
A little of God will not move the hand of God.
— Teresa Odden
Somebody’d better pray for him, don’t you think? He IS a lost soul.~Pastor John Linton
— Janet Sketchley, Heaven's Prey
let your desires be His prayer in you. trust them. let them take you by the hand.let them walk you forward into the next moment, and the next, and the next, and the next...
— Kate Mullane Robertson
Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.
— D.E. Stevenson, The Young Clementina
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and that they'll be pleasing to you. We thank you for this food and ask your blessing on it, and on the hands that prepared it. In Jesus' name, Amen
— Virginia Smith, Stuck in the Middle
Starting the day - Another chance to be new again.How many of us still wish for that?To be your own sunrise.To awaken like a prayer - both solemn and joyful at still being alive.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.
— Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life
The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.
— Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
— Edward Everett Hale
God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
— Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life
॥दोहा॥श्रीगुरु चरन सरोज रज, निज मनु मुकुरु सुधारि।बरनउँ रघुबर बिमल जसु, जो दायकु फल चारि॥DohaWith the dust of guru’s lotus feet having,I cleanse the mirror of my soul sparkling,Raghuvar’s spotless glory I be singing,The four fruits of life it ever is giving.- 303 -
— Munindra Misra, Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
नमस्तेशरण्येशिवेसानुकम्पे, नमस्तेजगद्व्यापिकेविश्वरूपे।नमस्तेजगद्वन्द्यपादारविन्दे, नमस्तेजगत्तारिणित्राहिदुर्गे॥१॥She the refuge, peaceful and merciful undoubtedly, She pervades over all, is universal form certainly, Her lotus feet worshipped by universe – all Glory, On your appeal “Protect me Durga” saves entirely.- 458 -
— Munindra Misra, Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
Together, on his back porch, his cigarette smoke rising like incense to the heavens, we spoke to the God of grace we both are so grateful to know up close and personal. It may be the most beautiful prayer I've ever heard. Jesus, for some reason you've given us another day, and you've set us in Narnia. There are people who still think it's frozen, and there are people who are longing to be thawed but don't know it. God, I pray that what you've called us to do would be the subversive work of the kingdom, that we would help participate in the melting of Narnia, and that people would come alive and would drink and dance and sing and just celebrate life in ways that are so marvelous that the world would press its face against the glass and see the redeemed celebrate life. Amen.
— Cathleen Falsani, Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace
From Brahma Puranब्राह्मीं च वैष्णवीं भद्रां, षड्-भुजां च चतुर्मुखीम्। त्रि-नेत्रां खड्ग-त्रिशूल-पद्म-चक्र-गदा-धराम्॥पीताम्बर-धरां देवीं, नानाऽलंकार-भूषिताम्। तेजः-पुञ्ज-धरीं श्रेष्ठां, ध्यायेद् बाल-कुमारिकाम्॥Meditate on youthful Brahmi* and Vaishnavi* surely,With six hands, four faces, three eyes gives safety,With sword, trident, lotus, wheel, globe, mace be,Greatest – yellow dressed, well decorated elegantly.
— Munindra Misra, Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
Shani Chalisa॥दोहा॥ Dohaजय-जय श्री शनिदेव प्रभु, सुनहु विनय महराज।करहुं कृपा हे रवि तनय, राखहु जन की लाज॥Shani Maharaj, glory to you with sincerity,Listen to my prayers I request humbly,Bestow your grace and protect me fully,Keep respect and honour of your devotees.- 341 -
— Munindra Misra, Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.
— John Bunyan, The Holy War
गु� ��मा, गु� �व�णु, गु� देवो महे�वरःlगु��सा�ाथ परम ��मा त�मै�ी गुरावेनामः॥Guru the darkness dispeller, Guru Brahma the Creator be,Guru Vishnu the Preserver; Guru Shiv the Transformer be,Guru, the Supreme Being in human form – our savour be,My salutations, awe, gratitude to that Divine Teacher be.- 1 -
— Munindra Misra, Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
जयति महाकाली जयति, आद्य काली माताजय कराला वदने जयति, जगाता मातु विख्याताVictory to you, O Mahakali! - To you Victory,The primordial source of all beings - Victory!The formidable-looking goddess - To you Victory,Renowned as the mother of the world - Victory!
— Munindra Misra, Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
संकट मोचन हनुमानाष्टकमत्तगयन्द छन्दबाल समय रबि भक्षि लियो तब तीनहुँ लोक भयो अँधियारो।ताहि सों त्रास भयो जग को यह संकट काहु सों जात न टारो।देवन आनि करी बिनती तब छाँड़ि दियो रबि कष्ट निवारो।को नहिं जानत है जग में कपि संकटमोचन नाम तिहारो॥१॥When as a child you lapped the sun, darkness on triple world fell,The worlds so got into trouble and a crisis that none could dispel,Gods then prayed to you to spare the sun and you did so quell,Who doesn’t know in this world your name `Problem Solver’ bells?- 294 -
— Munindra Misra, Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
You need God's direction before you can prosper in anything you do. However, it takes your choices to begin; it takes your passion to stay on; it also takes your integrity to finish it well!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.
— Jim George, A Leader After God's Own Heart: 15 Ways to Lead with Strength
No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things even that we need because we are, must wait until we ask for them, that we may know whence they come: when in all gifts we find Him, then in Him we shall find all things.
— George MacDonald