“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“Dedicating a writing session to someone is like sending a prayer for them out into the world. I will never know if… — Elizabeth Rusch Copy Share Image
Lord Jesus crucified; I humbly speak to you, in the Presence of Mary our Blessed Mother. I acknowledge that you suffered so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In loving someone, you worship them like a deity and it hurts, a lot, to the point that in trying to show… — Daryl Palumbo Copy Share Image
I pray for forgiveness as my thoughts have no limits and my actions have no mercy. People piss me off that's why… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
The constant exercise of our faith by lofty thinking, prayer, devotion, and acts of righteousness is just as essential to spiritual health… — O. Leslie Stone Copy Share Image
“I throw my makeshift jai-namaz , my prayer rug, on the floor and I get on my knees, lower my forehead to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet.… — Jasika Nicole Copy Share Image
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous for us to allow our difficulties to reside in the forefront of our thinking. Rather, our focus should always… — Charles F. Stanley Copy Share Image
The cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lords vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If you don't ask for their help, your angels still are with you and continuously sending you pure, unconditional love. If there's… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal.… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
I am sustained by the prayers of the people in this country. I guess an appropriate way to say this, it's one… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Prayer is a walk with God…We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it,… — Kenneth E. Hagin Copy Share Image
I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“It's easy to be nice to people who don't mean that much to us. But if something matters to us, we will… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“There is beauty in every incident of life; the true and the false, the wise and the foolish, are all one in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Father, I desire to please You in everything I do. I declare that You are good and faithful. I trust You with… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
“and the creation, in the world and above the world, that once was at variance with itself, is knit together in friendship:… — Gregory of Nyssa 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
“God's forgot that ever I lived... He's forgot...and He never cared, nohow…" He smoothed her brown, rough-palmed hand; he held her hands… — Caroline Miller Copy Share Image
“ Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World If the gods bring to you a strange and frightening creature,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The ambiance of solitude, the absence of any disturbing noise and of worldly desires and images, the quiet and calm attention of… — Carthusian Monks Copy Share Image
Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“An important spiritual law is here involved. I have explained that you can weaken his prayers by diverting his attention from the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
He prayed more deeply for simple selflessness than he had ever prayed beforeand, feeling an uprush of grace in the very intention,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life goes through alternating phases in which God successively shows and hides himself, makes himself heard and is quiet. Prayer… — Robert Cardinal Sarah Copy Share Image
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
