Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Prayer is making space available for God to do beautiful things with your life.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when?

So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they’ll send rain and good crops and the whole works? And nothing bad will ever happen. Right.’ Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. A rain dance even more so.I thought I might...

The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other’s hearts in prayer.

Men and women are needed whose prayers will give to the world the utmost power of God; who will make His promises to blossom with rich and full results. God is waiting to hear us and challenges us to bring Him to do this thing by our praying. He is asking us, to-day, as He...

Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.

He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

Don’t pray that God would teach you how to love like He loves; pray that He would fill you with Himself and that He would love in and through you. Don’t pray that He would teach you to have joy; pray that the living God full of joy would enter into you. Don’t pray that...

I can but pray the Father o’ a’ to haud his e’e upon her, an’ his airms aboot her, an’ keep aff the hardenin’ o’ the hert ‘at despises coonsel!

I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright,...

YOU might be limited by a life situation, but GOD is never hampered. Praise Him!

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

As consciousness expands, so does perception of self.

I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough.

Prayer, Holy communication with God

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

your god may be your little Christian habit – the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, ‘I can’t do that right now; this is my time...

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.

Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend’s prayer because she’s asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.

But prayer isn’t asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

Lord, help us root our feet to the earthAnd our eyes to the roadAnd always remember the fallen angelsWho, attempting to soar,Were seared instead by the sun and, wings melting,Came crashing back to the sea.Lord, help root my eyes to the earthAnd stay my eyes to the roadSo I may never stumble.-Psalm 24 (From “Prayer...

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I’ve worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

I felt sorry for the inhabitants and went into the forest to admonish the wolf in God’s name not to eat any more sheep. I called him, he came—and do you know what his answer was? ‘Francis, Francis,’ he said, ‘do not destroy God’s prescribed order. The sheep feeds on grass, the wolf on sheep—that’s...

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

From today, may you cease to exist except as an expression of the divine intention of your Creator. May you tune in to the celestial melody of love, compassion and courage each and every moment of the day. May all the relationships in your life represent the perfect opportunities to fulfill your true calling.

Join hands with other protagonists of love and peace and become a love commander.

When you reach the point you truly want someone to stop and listen, to hear even your unspoken words, to feel your depth of sorrow, to care unreservedly, and to completely understand—pray.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

The more a family can be splintered apart, the weaker and more ineffectual they become, and the more the enemy has control of their lives. One way to avoid this is through prayer. When you cover your family relationships in prayer, whether it be with your children, parents, stepparents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, husband, or wife,...

As a prayer popper, I stay in touch with God. I send lots of spiritual postcards. Little bits and bytes of adoration, supplication, and information attached prayer darts speed in God’s direction all day long.

Satan is a relentless tormenter; you have to be a relentless Scripture Confessor until satan flees.”- Tytenisha, Confessions of a Praying Woman

We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn’t answer.

Why bother praying? It does not matter if we have developed bad habits in limiting prayer to only asking for things, but prayer is much, much richer than that. By all means let’s keep asking God to keep changing us, but let’s also give praise and thanksgiving; crying out in lamentation; affirm our trust and...

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.