Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Necessary

• I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfection
  • Goodness
  • Blessings

• I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Direction

• Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Strong
  • Prayer

• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Help
  • Death
  • Prayer

• God shapes the world by prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • World
  • God
  • Prayer

• Maybe baby I'll have you,Maybe baby you'll be true.Maybe baby I'll have you for me. (All for me)It's funny honey you don't care-a-are,You never listen to my prayer-a-yer,Maybe baby you will love me someday (someday).

  

  Buddy Holly
  • True
  • Funny
  • Prayer

• When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• 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

• My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

  

  Anna Lee
  • Power
  • Father
  • Prayer

• I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Powerful

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

  

  Kiran Bedi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Prayer

• We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Up
  • Real
  • Family

• All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

  

  Betty Wright
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Light

• Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Slavery

• The greatest prayer motivator in existence is answered prayer.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Prayer

• Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Prayer

• We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Giving
  • Simple

• For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.

  

  George Downame
  • Strong
  • Spiritual
  • Prayer

• The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Gratitude
  • Grateful

• That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Begin Again

• Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Prayer
  • Blessings
  • Necessary