Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“God I am a sinner. I have done so many wrongs, in my life. I have wronged many people, unaware. I have… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“It is this demand for a universality of worship that has been the chief torment of each and every man individually and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Dear GOD, help me to accept listening when I can't hear, asking wen I can't know, looking when I can't see. Make… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“If every day you were to walk past the same individual and ignore him, never smiling or saying hello or returning any… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you… — Karen Barber Copy Share Image
“The Peace Panda Says: Without The Heartfelt Prayer Of Love And Compassion...Even The Greatest Of Temples, Mosques, Synagogues and Cathedrals Of Humanity… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We are not called to embody Jesus ourselves; He has already been incarnated and is still even now! No, we are not… — Hannah Anderson Copy Share Image
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“Emotional intensity is in itself no proof of spiritual depth. If we pray in terror we shall pray earnestly; it only proves… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“If Ever You Feel Down, Remember, 100Trillion Cells Make Up Your Body and ALL each of them cares About is You. Our… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
“God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and… — C. John Miller Copy Share Image
Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“A list of birds seen on a given day is also a form of prayer, a thanksgiving for being alive at a… — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“As Foster writes, “If our spiritual vitality seems low, if Bible study produces only dusty words, if prayer seems hollow and empty,… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
I think the thing that -- the prayer that I would like America is to ask for is to pray for God's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Luke tells us that as Jesus was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, one of His disciples said unto Him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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