Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools:… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation. I prefer a kind… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
“As Christians we are always in tension - in an anguish and at the same time in bliss. This is mad, ridiculous.… — Anthony Bloom Copy Share Image
The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“She would, on the birthday of Christ, allow herself what she called "an extra helping of prayer." At the time of the… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“SURRENDER I surrender all to you. I surrender my life to you. I will do whatever you want. I will go wherever… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I suppose there may be a branch president or a high councilor or an elders quorum president or a visiting teacher in… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“He asked me if I ever prayed-- and I lied. Then he asked me if I ever got an answer, or a… — Spuds Crawford Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Worship is about something we do. It involves sacrifice. But at the heart of the gospel is this truth, we are called… — Tim Hughes Copy Share Image
We made the song a big part of the story [Sausage Party ] itself, in that it's kind of their prayer that… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
“As a devout Baptist, she believed it was a sin to pray for anything for yourself. You ought to pray only for… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“Beginning the holy Rosary, I asked the Blessed Virgin for whom I ought to pray in the first joyful mystery. It was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A tall man stood and asked, So what do you advise us to do? He replied, Worship your Lord, pray your five… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Worship is something we do not just on Sunday morning, but every day of the week, in all we say and do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You might get up in the morning and do your devotions and say a few prayers and there you go. You think… — Jeremy Camp Copy Share Image
“He is holy, and so we worship (adoration). He is merciful, and so we repent (confession). He is gracious, and so we… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are.… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Stick with it in faith my friend, Don't Quit! Help is being sent of God, and will appear at the very moment… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“You see Maggie, I realized the importance of our responses to the unanswered prayers. I had a choice to either grow bitter… — Toni Teepell Copy Share Image
From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Adults need spiritual apprenticeships as much as their children do—and adults need them first. Group spiritual direction, covenant groups, practice in oral… — Kenda Creasy Dean Copy Share Image