Arthur Tappan Pierson Quotes

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

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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

• The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Government
  • United

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

  

  Majel Barrett
  • First
  • United States
  • United

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• 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

• When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • God
  • Food
  • Prayer

• 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

• What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Fun
  • Worked
  • Notion

• Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Chess

• I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Letting

• One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • You
  • Years
  • Suicide

• I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • President
  • Role

• 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