Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
Mark Batterson
GodPrayerYourselfDieYouKnow
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.
Maya Angelou
DayPrayerPracticeMondayMeNight
If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.
Edward McKendree Bounds
WorkGodPrayerWorldRulesEarth
I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
Marianne Williamson
PrayerSpiritualThinkBackWant
School prayer, abortion, and school busing are indeed controversial issues. I doubt that there ever will be complete agreement on the public-policy questions they raise.
Max Baucus
PrayerSchoolQuestionsDoubtWill
The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.
BusinessMenPrayerMondaySaturday
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
PrayerWordsBetterFewer
Prayer is where the action is.
John Wesley
PrayerActionWhere
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
Warren E. Burger
PrayerPracticeSocietyDoubtBecome
Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.
Lindsey Stirling
GodTimePrayerGoSayInspiration
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.
Steve Harvey
MotherSonTeacherPrayerSchool
I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.
Ted Danson
WorkGodPrayerNameBurdenSilent
I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.
Lewis Black
PrayerDoingBackCountryNeedGet
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.
Steven Cojocaru
PrayerMakeupUsedChantBuddhist
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
Saint Ignatius
GodPrayerRememberExerciseYou
I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.
Kinky Friedman
PrayerSchoolYouNowRightTell
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.
Sholom Aleichem
FatherBlessingPrayerWorldEvening
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
Ramana Maharshi
GodTimePrayerWaitThinkYou
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.
Julian Baggini
GoodOpportunityPrayerPracticeYou
I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.
Tony Evans
TimePrayerMeSamePreachPastor
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
Origen
GodGreatPrayerVoiceCryLift
The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.
Guy Standing
PrayerCharityAuthorityAskMust
There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.
Ruth Ozeki
GodPrayerWordsWritingWorldYou
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Naguib Mahfouz
PrayerManTreatImportantFasting
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Prayer