Prayer Quotes - Page 136

Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!

The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell.

It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.