The act of prayer present an opportunity to communicate and connect to the Supreme being,God.

Do not worry about your needs. God knows your every need.

If prayers emitted light, you’d see ours (Liberty students’) from space.

Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears...

Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone…

May every voice proclaim thy praise.And every knee bow in thy presenceThe tangible promise of our faith.May thy Charity, like a mantle, Lift us to God on high.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

And the Bastard grant us… in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain’s peak, the...

I once asked a rabbi in a large congregation which prayers he used with the dying. “You mean the Mourner’s Kaddish?” he asked, referring to the prayer recited on behalf of the deceased. “No,” I...

I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows

Awakening others is an impossible endeavor until I myself am awakened.

It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is necessary is to expose them to rewards which they believe they are generating...

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

Don’t panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews,...

It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

If your husband’s self-image needs a makeover, be patient. The answers don’t come overnight when a long-held pattern of thinking has to be broken. But you can appropriate the power of God to fight the...

To my surprise, I had not just doodled, I had prayed (I drew new shapes and names of each friend and focused on the person whose name stared at me from the paper). I had...

Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.

Learning to pray doesn’t offer us a less busy life; it offersus aless busy heart.

Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which...

There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent,...

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn’t he? We hear Joy’s getting better….LEWIS: That’s not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the...

Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.

Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To...

Lucien had never prayed before, never imagined that there might be a deity listening who would be interested in what he had to say, so his supplication skills were a tad rusty.But now Lucien prayed.Please...

I just did a little prayer, that I might be the last guy to make that out.

Taking actions will fulfill your dreams and wishes, not the prayers and blessings.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be...

Prayer has been made to all three of them for welfare, success and prosperity.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. … Choose science.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of ‘No answer.’ It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze....

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some...

All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a...

Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.

Changed people change nations.

Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread for your spirit. Read the Bible every day and keep your spirit away from hunger.

Perhaps thought really is prayer.

When we say to people, ‘I will pray for you,’ we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this remark often remains nothing but a well-meant expression of concern. But when we...

No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things even that we need because we are, must wait until we ask for...

After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He...

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that...

When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.

Ask. Trust. Give thanks. Simple right?

Grace is not a little prayer you say before you eat. It is a way of life. Eph 2:8,9

Prayer is actually setting out a tuning fork. All you can really do in the spiritual life is to get tuned to receive the always present message. Once you are tuned, you will receive, and...

Prayer is a great opportunity to receive grace from God.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.