Prayer Quotes
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Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Ernest Holmes -
Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
Catherine Marshall -
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.
Thomas Keating -
Perhaps she had not understood the heights to which prayer must rise before it becomes pure praise, the fortitude that is demanded before it can share in the redemption of man's soul. The man of prayer beside her had said it was action, the greatest activity there is. She began to believe him.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
Mother Teresa -
Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
Mother Teresa -
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.
Brennan Manning
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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."
Francis Chan -
Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer
Sun Ra -
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
Mother Teresa -
The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
Jimmy Carter -
The enemy just hates our prayers.
Francis Chan -
The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
Evelyn Underhill
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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.
Thomas Keating -
T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
Francis Chan -
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
Eugene H. Peterson -
Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.
Richard Simmons -
There is no promise too hard for God to fulfill. No prayer is too big for Him to answer!
Christine Caine
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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.
Jimmy Carter -
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.
Brennan Manning -
Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of your faith will be made visible to you. It is then that you shall 'kiss the lips of your desire.'
Ernest Holmes -
We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
Francis Chan