Arthur Tappan Pierson Quotes

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Spirit
  • Generosity
  • United

• We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • First
  • United States
  • United

• I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Media
  • Liberal
  • United

• I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Day
  • Prayer

• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Most

• My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fear

• True prayer requires no word, no chant no gesture, no sound. It is communion, calm and still with our own godly Ground

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • True
  • Prayer
  • Calm

• Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

  

  James Martineau
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Prayer

• People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • People
  • Prayer

• In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Evil
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • God
  • True
  • Learning

• Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Long
  • Heart

• Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Great
  • Prayer
  • Guilty

• I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

  

  Kiran Bedi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Prayer

• Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it receives. It's just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Universe
  • Thoughts
  • Prayer

• I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.

  

  Mark Batterson
  • Fall
  • Prayer

• Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

  

  George MacDonald
  • Light
  • Wish
  • Prayer

• What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • God
  • Friend
  • Prayer

• If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • World
  • Different
  • Experience

• Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Road
  • Ignore
  • Result

• There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

  

  Arthur Tappan Pierson
  • Prayer
  • United
  • Awakening