The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it.… — Silas House Copy Share Image
None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“At the time, I prayed to God only intermittently, and then mainly to ask for things, such as: “Please let me get… — James Martin Copy Share Image
A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There's a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Surveys show that more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. have prayed the sinner's prayer and think they're going to… — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“But I've noticed, too, that prayer for some other people is less like a spare tire and more like a road map.… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Whether you pray in the morning, at night, or during your lunch break at work, the key is to set aside the… — Kathi Lipp Copy Share Image
“Some nights looking at him scares me so bad I can hardly move and I start doing a prayer for protection. But… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Your vision of your future will help you press forward. Take a few minutes to envision where you want to be in… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“First Snow The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence… — mary oliver Copy Share Image
“If our spiritually dead ones are to be raised, we must first get power with God. The reason we so often fail… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
There is great power in loving, consistent, fervent family prayer. Don't deny your families this blessing. Don't allow the strength that comes… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
“All I daresay at this point is pray on it and pray hard. Then wait and listen for God's answer. I've learned… — Marlene Banks Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It's almost impossible for you to understand, isn't it, Rhodes? How much you can hate what you are. You don't know what… — A.E. Wasp Copy Share Image
“Spontaneous prayer, sincerely expressed, may be a very important way to speak to the Lord. However, the prayers that we have received… — Mitch Pacwa Copy Share Image
Dear god, please strengthen me so that my heart wont be hardened by hurt it endured, my judgment wont be clouded by… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“Cynicism creates a numbness toward life. Cynicism begins with a wry assurance that everyone has an angle. Behind every silver lining is… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“William looked up... through his tears... past the catwalk and lights... past the sky... through the dark and clouds and stars and… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather,… — Roberta Bondi Copy Share Image
Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“our worship sometimes sounds over the top (“Save us, O Virgin,” “You are our only hope”), but we know what we mean.… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
