“SURELY YOU SEE from this that you shouldn’t take your own experience as the rule of thumb by which you judge other… — Carmen Acevedo Butcher Copy Share Image
A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
“But it is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. For then… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Prayer is the opening of the heart so we can receive all these good things that God has for us every day.… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“Everyone takes a turn, and when it gets to me, I shout out what Jewish people say at times like this: "L'chaim!"… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“That night, I waited until Baba fell asleep, and then folded a blanket. I used it as a prayer rug. Bowing my… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“With respect also to spiritual sloth, beginners are apt to be irked by the things that are most spiritual, from which they… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“I hear a small voice in the back of my mind and it is chanting a prayer: ‘Please don’t fall in love… — Tina Tran Copy Share Image
Prayer does not require a deity or Religion to be a valid form of hope. Prayer is a personal spiritual blessing towards… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more,… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
“I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or… — Theo Paphitis Copy Share Image
... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“That," she said, "is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
“the essence of the Hajj is Arafat. On the ninth day of the Hajj month all pilgrims gather on the great Plain… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
You may not be here next to me but every second and minute your presence lingers on in my thoughts and prayers;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“TRIAD supernal, both super-God and super-good, Guardian of the Theosophy of Christian men, direct us aright to the super-unknown and super-brilliant and… — Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite Copy Share Image
There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“Aldous Huxley, a British novelist born in the late 1800s, said, “The Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not… — Linda Evans Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Centuries later, it is often presumed that such a pious tone and environment would create boredom, cynicism, and even open rebellion among… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Prayer becomes transformational when we embrace the original and enduring context for all praying. A worship-based approach fixes our heart first on… — Daniel Henderson Copy Share Image
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I… — Mary Slessor Copy Share Image
I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or… — Haroon Siddiqui Copy Share Image
The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
