Walter Wink Quotes

Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

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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

• 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
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Most

• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Different
  • Prayer

• Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Truth

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

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • People
  • Prayer

• I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Mother
  • Prayer

• 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

• I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Prayer

• I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Church
  • Prayer

• I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.' I'm not saying I don't have problems or that I don't worry, but I try not to be stressed. I manage my anxiety through prayer. Worry shows up on your face, and I don't want that!

  

  Kim Fields
  • Up
  • Worry
  • Prayer

• Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

  

  James Dobson
  • Prayer

• I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful. I have endless energy, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Supply, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Truth, I am thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • World
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• God-honoring prayers are not simply shopping lists. They are more than cries for help, strength, mercy and miracles. Authentic prayer should include worship, submission, requests, and confessions.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Help
  • 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

• Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • May
  • Earth

• To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Truth
  • Prayer

• There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Prayer
  • Place
  • No Need

• That no Flake of snow fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Prayer
  • Snow
  • Pagan

• Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into the visible realm.

  

  Tony Evans
  • People
  • Mean
  • Prayer

• Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Life
  • Past
  • Cancer

• I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Freedom
  • Painting
  • Sculpting

• Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

  

  Walter Wink
  • Prayer
  • Atmosphere
  • Suffocating