I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow.May the fire of love grow in our hearts.May the fire of transformation glow in our movements.May the fire of...

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly...

A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first God but the first God exists in and as a part of the nature; a...

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God’s art.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

But the Esquire passage I found most poignant and revealing was this one: Mister Rogers’ visit to a teenage boy severely afflicted with cerebral palsy and terrible anger. One of the boys’ few consolations in...

Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least...

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

Dear Gods of Heaven and Earth.The universe has began, without a beginning. Even if it’s divided into Heaven, Earth, and Man, the essence is the same. Although Heaven, Earth, and Man are different in form,...

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not...

My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep...

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is...

When you don’t have the strength on your own. God has angels on assignment fighting for you. God has not forgotten about you. You’re coming out healed, restored and transformed in Jesus’ name.

Lord, when I feel that what I’m doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me...

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we’re told, and back then I was.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all...

Aku di sini kamu di sana, tapi kita tetap bisa berpelukan dalam doa dan puisi.

Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything...

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask...

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown…it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe… and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good...

If done “as God wants.’ then leadership will surely include intercessory prayer. The saintly Bishop Azariah of India once remarked to Bishop Stephen Neill that he found time to pray daily, by name, for every...

Prayer is our voice; intuition is God’s answer.

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord’s Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.

It’s not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly “express” these (cognitive) beliefs; rather, we begin with worship, and articulated beliefs bubble up from there. “Doctrines”...

Elohim, Adonai, Jehovah!Almighty God, Great is thy faithfulness!

Prayer turns problems into promises and possibilities.

You might not be able to change your situation but prayer can.

God help us to live slowly:To move simply:To look softly:To allow emptiness:To let the heart create for us.Amen.

A single prayer of yours, a few words whispered on your knees, in humble submission to the God of our fathers, and a firm belief that what you ask will in fact be done… and...

The answer to our prayer may be coming, although we may not discern its approach. A seed that is underground during winter, although hidden and seemingly dead and lost, is nevertheless taking root for a...

You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility’s strength is grounded in God.

What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear...

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you’re at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you’ve got some help with the second.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God...

I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time… One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I’ve prayed this prayer thousands of times,...

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

Real life is messy and hard and never turns out like I’ve imagined. Usually it’s better. So, I try not to dream but rather to pray. If there is one thing I know, it’s that...

He splashed into the water, his whole body, not with the reverent attitude of prayer, but with a desperate thirst; he buried his head under the water and drank deep, with his cheek against the...

Léon Bloy wrote: ‘Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

If today is the last day of your life, the one thing you want to say is that you showed up for life. You showed up for your dreams. You showed up for the people...

You are enough exactly as you are, whether you believe it or not.

What if deep down inside you…you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

As I watched them file down the stairs, I didn’t cry and I wasn’t afraid. But I couldn’t tell if it was Jesus or the gin.

Every moment God gives you is precious. Never take the life and moments He has given you for granted