Prayer Quotes
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God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'
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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
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There is no promise too hard for God to fulfill. No prayer is too big for Him to answer!
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One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.
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The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
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Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.
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Purity is the fruit of prayer.
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My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."
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Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
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Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you
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It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.
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My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
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Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
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You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
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Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
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You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.
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Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
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Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
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My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
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St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.
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My prayer today is to become more mindful of my personal actions. What motivates me to do what I do and to say the things I do to others? I often dismiss my actions because of stress or anger but the people I hurt along the way do not dismiss what I've said or done. Every action and every word carries a consequence. Every person has stress and every person has anger. I would not like to be someone's target and I ask for the grace to become more mindful not to harm others just because I am having a bad day.
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To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction.