The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of...

That,” she said, “is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It’s like saying you shouldn’t get...

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we’re to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.

The devil doesn’t give a hoot if you’re a pastor, attend church or read your bible. His main priority is to distract you from praying in Jesus’ name and applying the word of God to...

To be in Christ means to be like Him, to make ours the very movement of His life. And as He “ever liveth to make intercession: for all “that come unto God by him” (Heb...

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

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

friends,” we can receive his strength in our weakness; his guidance in our steps; and his mercy when we stumble along life’s path.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.

What’s to rationalize? You mean you shouldn’t pray if you haven’t got your s–t together? This is another fairly common misconception of faith, which is that people who go to church, or people who pray,...

I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more.

Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, ‘Prayer happened, and I was there” more than “I prayed today”. All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being...

Heavenly Father, let your glory be seen in our lives.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

The angel said, “I like black-and-white films more than color because they’re more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It’s sort of like prayer.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials. We hardly noticed anything but our little family whose ties weren’t loosening at...

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.

Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

Ain’t the best prayin’ jest bein’ with God and talkin’ a while, like He’s a good friend, stead a-like he runs a store and you’ve come in a-hopin’ to git a bargain?

The New Testament describes the characteristics of a “virtuous widow” who is qualified to receive help from believers. This woman’s description seems to parallel the miraculous, poured-out life portrayed by the Proverbs 31 woman. She...

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t...

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetcher, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story,...

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since...

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

Truly worthy are those who become brighter as the days get cloudier so that their light shines through, regardless of how hard the clouds are working to block their radiance.

The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray, contrives to stir...

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of...

When asked, ‘What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?’ I ask, ‘What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.

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Now I lay me down to sleep,I pray the Lord my soul to keep,And if I die before I wake,I pray the Lord my toys will break.So none of the other kids can use ’em….Amen.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

Please God, please suh, don’t let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah’m is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin’, Jesus. Ah done waited...

We see through the inspired pages that Jesus often stopped His very important, very urgent work, the work He was sent to do, in order to commune with His Father. It appears prayer was as...

Tangaloor, fire-brightFlame-foot, farthest walkerYour hunter speaksIn need he walksIn need, but never in fear.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

My prayer for you today is that you experience the Love that God has for you in such a profound, childlike way that your perspective is completely transformed. As you encounter circumstances in your life,...