Prayer Quotes - Page 87

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.

Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

You can't worry about how the thing is going to come about. Ruminating about trying to make something happen or worrying about the how actually slows down the prayer being answered, because the way prayers are answered exceeds human third-dimensional thinking. Asking for help from the angels is like going to the post office: You have to let go of the envelope in order for it to be mailed.

At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.

The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.