“This is why in the Lord’s Prayer we don’t get to the petition for our daily bread and needs until we have… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“The problem of the church is not lack of prayer. The problem of the church is lack of action. So many Christians… — Nicky Verd Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God… — Wilfred Grenfell Copy Share Image
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“God sees you and me in our pain and our brokenness. He sees you walking a difficult path when the sun goes… — Katie Davis Majors Copy Share Image
You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“This I would like to be- braver and bolder, Just a bit wiser because I am older, Just a bit kinder to… — Edgar A. Guest Copy Share Image
“It is useful to reflect that the word 'liturgy' did not originate in church or worship settings. In the Greek world it… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be… — Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D Copy Share Image
I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“But if there was ever a time for us to go to extremes for our God, it is now. The truth of… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord’s example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Prayer is not what you are yelling about. It is what you are THINKING about, consciously or sub-consciously, even at this moment.… — N Atta Kusi Adusei Copy Share Image
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it;… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them - through faith or… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I declare that for me it is in vocalisation, in the use of mantras and prayer, through the awakening of the sexual… — Arnoldo Krumm-Heller Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of our union with Christ...gives us confidence in prayer. It was when Jesus had begun to expound the closeness of… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(from a prayer for inclusiveness): O god whose face changes as we move and learn and change, whose image becomes less like… — Bronwyn Angela White Copy Share Image
“Worry, my son?...I am not worried now and I never have or will. You must learn to tell worry from thought, and… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Am I the only one who gets embarrassed when religious leaders in America talk about having prayer in public schools? We don’t… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“Christ does not intend just to hear our pious prayers and worship; but He intends to intervene in our schooling, our fights… — Matthew the Poor Copy Share Image
[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship,"… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayers prayed in the Spirit never die until they accomplish God's intended purpose. His answer may not be what we expected, or… — Wesley L Duewel Copy Share Image
“When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
![“[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get…” quote by George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ad4/george-macdonald-295_can-not_god-desires-not-that-he-may-say-to-them_2732298.png)
