You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Ask and you shall receive; everyone that asks receives. This is the fixed eternal law of the kingdom: If you ask and… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like… — Therese Of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The kingdom of God comes both through our gathered worship each week and our “scattered” worship in our work each day. Thus… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us,… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And… — Anne Heche Copy Share Image
“The next morning, between services, in an alcove space used for private prayer, Heinrich confessed to an elder that he had succumbed… — Jamie Quatro Copy Share Image
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
The joys received through prayer, meditation, and contemplation are the highest of all joys which cannot be given by the world. All… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
My Lord, your son has suffered so much, shed so much blood. I was born with so many faults and my nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality),… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“When we make appreciation the central theme of our value system, then all the painful elements of our past become meaningful lessons… — Pooja Ruprell Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make… — James Carville Copy Share Image
And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Words cannot express the joy that we feel remembering that you shared the beginning of our new life together. We would like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
“True worship is the living human being, who has become a total answer to God, shaped by God's healing and transforming word.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Let’s think back for a moment to the boring sermon. Sometimes the sermon we hear is boring because it went on for… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Prayers, maybe most of them, go unanswered. You two, you’re too young, too fortunate, to know that. You will. Prayers go unanswered.… — Edward J. Santella Copy Share Image
Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
May God bless all the Mothers that give of themselves and tend to their household needs before the needs of self. For… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“Most members of our community are genuinely dear souls who love the Lord Jesus with their whole heart and honor in pious… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
