Prayer Quotes
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After almost a lifetime spent in prayer and contemplation she had believed that at least she had her thoughts well disciplined, but as one got older, one’s hard-won control slipped a little and one felt sometimes as though spiritually one were back again in one’s youth, with all the battles to fight again.
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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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If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
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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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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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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.
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T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
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The heaven had cried out for joy, and the earth had answered, and between the two the smell of the gorse rose up like ascending prayer and linked them together. Music and scent were alive once more in the world; only color tarried, waiting upon the sun.
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A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you
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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.
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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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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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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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Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
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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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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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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
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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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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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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 a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
