O you who believe! when you rise up to prayer, wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows, and… — Quran Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He walked for days, stopping at bars and restaurants whenever he felt thirsty, hungry or tired; mostly they were automatic and he… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at. — John Templeton 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
“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“The primary purpose of prayer is to bring us into such a life of communion with the Father that, by the power… — Richard Foster Copy Share Image
sometimes i wonder does god just not care are is he to busy ignoring your prayers — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“Let us labor to memorize the Word of God--for worship and for warfare. If we do not carry it in our heads,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“He continued. “Most of the time when we go to God, it’s because we want something. If we get what we want,… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
“we must not miss the fact that Paul directly tells a local congregation to adapt its worship because nonbelievers will be present.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention. — Umar Copy Share Image
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I know God has a plan. I pray for direction to follow it, patience to wait on it, and knowledge to know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“The experience of art is best understood not from the perspective of "reading" or "decoding" but in contemplation and communion, metaphors that… — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is… — Anonymous 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
There's peace in praying, the wounds might not heal, but praying pushes the pain aside for a while, God has a soft… — Michael Hayssus Copy Share Image
We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and… — James Ussher Copy Share Image
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” — Lynn R. Davis Copy Share Image
A busy life makes prayer harder, but prayer makes a busy life easier. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer. — Dutch Sheets Copy Share Image
Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light. — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of God’s willingness.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image