We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
“God’s Word “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so… — Glenn Langohr Copy Share Image
The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“The enemy’s attacks also increase during prayer. Disguised as our own thoughts, the enemy sends many memories of past sins, shameful thoughts,… — R. Thomas Ashbrook Copy Share Image
“Grant unto us, Lord, that we may set our hope on Thy name…and open the eyes of our hearts, that we may… — St. Clement of Rome 100 A.D Copy Share Image
“Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me,… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
“And even if prayer seems futile and unnecessary, even if tears are quite often your only food - "day and night," as… — Frank Page Copy Share Image
When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing… — Bernie Siegel 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“Rodwell wandered into No Man's Land and put a bullet through his ears. On Sunday, Robert sat on his bed in the… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank 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
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it -- if that makes any sense.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“In an interdependent, relational, contextual world, our praying constitutes a dance with God that makes a difference to what God can do… — Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki Copy Share Image
There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“Further, our heavenly Father, we come before Thee now washed in the blood, wearing the snow white robe of Christ's righteousness, and… — B. Aguilera 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
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
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
“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
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
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