Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
“Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...those called by Christ's name should order their lives. They should persevere in prayers and supplications and, in imitation of the angels,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“Dear God, thank you for all that you have given me. For my family, for my job. For our beautiful home. For… — Joan Ball Copy Share Image
A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
