quotations about prayer
Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
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Baltasar and Blimunda
The prayer that yields the richest rewards of grace is the prayer we pray for our enemies.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Prayer is a nonlocative, nongeographic space that one enters at one's own peril, for it houses God during those few moments of one's presence there, and what is there will most surely change everything that comes into it. Prayer, its opal walls polished to transparency by the centuries of hands that have touched them, is the Tabernacle realized and the wayside chapel utilized. Ever traveling as we travel, moving as we move, prayer grips like home, until the heart belongs nowhere else and the body can scarcely function apart from them both. Prayer is dangerous and the entrance way to wholeness.
PHYLLIS TICKLE
Prayer Is a Place
I pray you'll be our eyes, and watch us where we go.
And help us to be wise in times when we don't know
Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way
Lead us to the place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we'll be safe
CELINE DION
"The Prayer"
It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTT
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God's guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his duties and responsibilities. My own concept of prayer is not as a plea for special favors nor as a quick palliation for wrongs knowingly committed. A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.
WALT DISNEY
Deeds Rather Than Words
Prayer that craves a particular commodity -- any thing less than all good -- is vicious.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Self-Reliance"
Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Your Brain Is God
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Young India, January 23, 1930
Whooah, we're half way there
WOOOOAH Livin on a prayer
BON JOVI
"Livin' on a Prayer"
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
BIBLE
James 5:16
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
"Which Way?"
The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.
DAVID A. BEDNAR
"Pray Always", October 2008
And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe,
O never, never turn away thine ear!
Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below,
Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!
JAMES BEATTIE
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
Now, prayer, in the most general and abstracted notion of that word, may be described: the speech of the rational creature unto God, whether conceived in the heart, or uttered by the mouth; whereby we either celebrate his amiable perfections, confess our own defects, implore his divine power for the mercies we want, or thank him for the blessings we have received.
WILLIAM MCEWAN
"On Prayer", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
ROBERT HERRICK
Hesperides
Prayer is the stimulant of the feeble.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
OSCAR WILDE
attributed, The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
Prayer is the most direct expression of the religious consciousness.
LOUIS BERKHOF
Biblical Archaeology