Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

Dear God Please take away my pain and despair of yesterday and any unpleasant memories and replace them with Your glorious promise of new hope. Show me a fresh HS-inspired way of relating to negative...

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned...

We do not want to be beginners (at prayer), but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners all of our lives. –Thomas Merton

Prayer is a leader’s best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life.

‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in...

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people’s hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of...

Thank you God”.

A good deed is the best prayer

People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist, eh?And of course there clearly had to be, said Koomi, a Supreme Being. But since the universe was a...

Haven’t my past sermons taught you anything?””Yes,” Emilie threw at him, “that you pray for those who are close to God, and those who aren’t, who need Him, you toss away like garbage.

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.

VespersLittle Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,Droops on the little hands little gold head.Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.God bless Mummy. I know that’s right.Wasn’t it fun in the...

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would...

He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other...

in the name of a god who was always a ghost

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much...

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it’s the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us...

Your happiness is a prayer for me, therefore i will always pray for your happiness.

The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Father, in those moments of utter exasperation, help me to want You as much as I need You!

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Death is empowered when saints joy in faithlessness and prayerlessness

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend,that together we may succeed in building a better worldthrough human understanding and love,and that in doing so we may reducethe pain and suffering of all sentient...

May Love Reign In All Universes andPeace Within Each One Us

Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts...

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

you only talk to yourself when you pray without believing and having faith in your prayers

My heart is filled with profound gratitude to God.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

I hope and pray to live the gospel. It is light and life to all who desire this great spiritual awaken.

The power of prayer is priceless. Great things can be accomplished by prayer.

What matters most, God was there for me, when I need him.

Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

I know we sort of said goodbye, but I don’t have anyone else to tell this to and I’m going to burst with it. You know EBB’s verse:God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,And...

You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning.You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night.But you can tell how popular Jesus...

There is no fixed formula for prayer. It has to be spontaneous, sincere, and affectionate. It is an over pouring of human spirit to God

No spiritual exercise is such a blending of complexity and simplicity. It is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try, yet the sublimest strains that reach the Majesty on high. It is...

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as...

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

…all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad…

Live each day like you are celebrating your birthday—that is what life wants for you. Engage with family and friends. Indulge in good food, music and dance. You are precious to life.

Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.

Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I’m sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of...

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across...

From Les Miserables:All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been horrible. It was a hymn which issued...