Catherine Marshall (Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd) Quotes

I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.

Catherine Marshall

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• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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  • Prayer

• My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Job
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  • Questions

• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• 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
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• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • May
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  • Prayer

• I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • People
  • World
  • 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

• I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Reading
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• Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Great
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• I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Air

• Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

  

  Dean Inge
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• Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

  

  Philip James Bailey
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• I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

  

  Liam Neeson
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• My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community. He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was not religious.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
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• 'The uploads replicate and develop relationships. Most of them go very bad. You sometimes get an entire virtual planet of four billion people devoted to building prayer wheels in an attempt at a denial of service attack on God.' – Newton's Wake

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
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• Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Prayer

• The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • People
  • King

• I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

  

  Jools Holland
  • Time
  • Music
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• I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Prayer
  • Able
  • Answers