He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed...

To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption,...

Almighty Lord deliver us from every hidden trap.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained”. Why I do this? Well, there is a deep-rooted imperfection in me which nested in my DNA and causes a linear interference that affects my consciousness. As a result I don’t...

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

But what if I don’t believe in God? It’s like they’ve sat me in front of a mannequin and said, Fall in love with him. You can’t will feeling. What Jack says issues from some...

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”[Mark Twain, a Biography]

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

I call it the BlackBerry prayer. You know, your head is bowed and your hands are in your lap.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

We pray to obey God, not to ‘play God’. We pray, not to change God’s mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to ‘let...

Make gratitude a habit you indulge in each night.

Where love is absent, violence is a glaring possibility. Introduce love into any situation and violence gradually evaporates.

Pray each morning and each night.Talk to God and be polite.Tell Him what you’re grateful for.Leave your troubles at His door.Share your wishes, needs, and hopes.Ask God what to do to cope.Tell Him all you...

I found myself praying: “May I love and accept myself just as I am.

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, ‘Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?

If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you’ve already been set free of, don’t even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again...

Since words elude me when I need them most, I learned long ago that I cannot count on QUALITY time with God when I want to pray. I need QUANTITY and regularity. Quality is not...

Prayer for today:Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first and primary object of his love. Therefore he wants the desires of his...

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God’s gift. Be grateful.

When you find yourself in one of those mystical/devotional frames of mind or in am emergency and you feel you want to pray, then pray. Don’t ever be ashamed to pray or feel prevented by...

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.

Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently ‘scientific’ knowledge of God, but to come to know him through the realization that our...

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.

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer....

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

heart” – body, soul, and mind – to God, to be in His Presence – to love Him, to worship Him, to lay our troubles and triumphs with Him, to rest in Him. What a...

See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

Men started praying to you, begging for a taste. That legend of yours spiraled out of control. You gave the people hope. They were told you were all they ever needed.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through genuine prayer, is to make as much room as possible, in...

Praying, we usually ask too much. I know I do. Sometimes we even demand. I think I am learning to ask enough for the moment–not for the whole year, utterly veiled in mystery; not even...

I am fine to live with her memories, I will settle myself with the verythought that she isn’t anymore, happily and gently.But dear God, don’t make her lose her conscious,like a dead yet, living body....

Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you.

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?

Do you not pray, Miss Smallwood?’She avoided his gaze. ‘No.”God is speaking to you every day,’ he said softly. ‘You might return the favor.’She raised her chin. ‘I don’t hear Him.”Do you listen?’She looked at...

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.