Prayer Quotes - Page 16

Rear your children in light and truth. Teach them to pray while they are young. Read to them from the scriptures even though they may not understand all that you read. Teach them to pay their tithes and offerings on the first money they ever receive. Let this practice become a habit in their lives. Teach your sons to honor womanhood. Teach your daughters to walk in virtue. Accept responsibility in the Church, and trust in the Lord to make you equal to any call you may receive. Your example will set a pattern for your children. Reach out in love to those in distress and need.

As white snow flakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

Phyllis and I pray these chaplets together; at three o'clock, every first Saturday. We are never in the same town. For months, we do not speak on the phone or email. We pray these chaplets for just a few minutes, maybe as many as sixty minutes, once a month on a Saturday afternoon. Intimacy with the elusive God is that kind of intimacy. It is the closeness of praying together, apart.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.

Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coasts the sea tides would be springing strong. The air itself also has lunar tides; I lay still. Could I feel in the air an invisible sweep and surge, and an answering knock in the lungs? Or could I feel the starlight? Every minute on a square mile of this land one ten thousandth of an ounce of starlight spatters to earth. What percentage of an ounce did that make on my eyes and cheeks and arms, tapping and nudging as particles, pulsing and stroking as waves?

Behind every successful man,there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.

Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.

Thinking well of others, praying for them may or may not change them, but you will, for sure, experience peace and love.

Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Oh Dear! The only time I want to love you is today, tomorrow, and forever.

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

God bless my soul.

Prayer without an active position is powerless to change anything

I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.

Immersed in surrender and gratitude, celestial pearls of wisdom form rosaries of prayer that entangle with my soul.

Find your ‘why’. Give your life meaning.

In the morning, lift my hands towards the heavens. And surrender my heart in prayer to the Most High God.

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

What you pray for today, will be manifest tomorrow.

A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

God wants to meet your needs, but seeking to receive something from Him shouldn’t dominate your prayer life.

May the Lord answer you when you are in distress May the name of the God of Jacob protect you May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.

Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.

The highest prayers lift you out of the lowest places.

The world truly is my oyster, the difficulty is... I haven't discovered the ALL of the tools to shuck it yet.

Call on God but row away from the rocks.

You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.

Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

The holy war is warfare.

Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings our home would through God's answer to prayer become a little paradise.

Grace is all that God is free to do for you, in you, with you and through you only because of the finished work of Jesus Christ.

When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.

We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.

When faced with trials, pray so that you cannot be the trial yourself.

He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.

The power of prayer is miraculous!

Lord, whatsoever this day may bring, Thy name be praised. Be gracious unto me and help me. Grant me strength to bear whatsoever Thou dost send, And let not fear overrule me. I trust Thy grace, and commit my life wholly into Thy Hands. Whether I live or whether I die, I am with Thee and Thou are with me … Lord, I wait for Thy salvation, and for the coming of Thy Kingdom. Amen.

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

Thank You is a great thing to share... If a situation brings Gratitude to mind, then a heart felt Thank You is a great way to express it.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray.And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24

There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, praying on your behalf.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake for praying is a saving of time.

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancients’ ultima Thule, the modern explorer’s Point of Relative Inaccessibility, that boreal point most distant from all known lands. There the twin oceans of beauty and horror meet. The great glaciers are calving. Ice that sifted to earth as snow in the time of Christ shears from the pack with a roar and crumbles to water. It could be that our instruments have not looked deeply enough. The RNA deep in the mantis’s jaw is a beautiful ribbon. Did the crawling Polyphemus moth have in its watery heart one cell, and in that cell one special molecule, and that molecule one hydrogen atom, and round that atom’s nucleus one wild, distant electron that split showed a forest, swaying?

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

The action you will take today, will define tomorrow.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.