Prayer Quotes
We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.
The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.
In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.
Prayer is a jouney, a path that is created only by walking it. It creates and reveals oneself in the process.
Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.
Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.
The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.
- I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.
Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.
Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.
DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.
...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...
I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.
We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.
Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.
Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys, ” but as our Father.
Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.
Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.
Prayer: The act of falling to your knees in pleading fashion, seeking help from a greater power than all else to have failed you previously.
Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true.
Father, in those moments of utter exasperation, help me to want You as much as I need You!
...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.
And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday…
Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment
God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.
Pray when you feel like praying, " somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.
When I listen to you, Godwhen I do what you ask me to, I am like a treeplanted by a river, a tree full of fruitwith leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)
I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.
To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.
Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams...
I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough.
While you’re hating your life just because you can’t get what you want, someone is praying to have a life like yours..!!
Your love for me should be a passionate desire to pray for me daily.