Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper. Something must be done. The drought threatens to destroy us. Surely, God who let...

…It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.

As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

I determined to learn to pray so that my experience conforms to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.

I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will...

Aeneas’ mother is a star?””No; a goddess.”I said cautiously, “Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus.”He thought it over....

Worry, my son?…I am not worried now and I never have or will. You must learn to tell worry from thought, and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life…and your life...

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God’s...

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Cheese!” I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.

We went to church Wednesday night, and our prayers were answered Thursday morning when Mann called.

…if God teaches us victory in Christ Jesus day by day, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and His sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. Never forget that God is far...

Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account

The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he would not get very far. In religion, as in art and science, along...

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there,...

a prayer for the secular humanist.

Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil.

It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.

The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.

Hearing God’s voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

For you and me, just knowing His presence is all around us can help lift us from the darkest night, embrace us in the loneliest hour, give us strength when we are tempted, and enable...

Prayer enables you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.

What’s the difference between praying and crying? One you’re talking to God, and the other you’re talking to God but you don’t know it.

God’s in His heaven, alls right with the world’, whispered Anne softly.

Prayer is learning to know God.

Doesn’t matter now,” he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.~William Drexler the Third

Lord grant me a humble spirit and a willing heart.

The gift of prayer is priceless gift.

The Holy Spirit is described as the Comforter, like a mother would be a comforter to her child. It is also said of the Spirit that He will lead us into all truth. Who instructs...

I couldn’t stop crying because it was so intimate, in that way I always thought being physical with him would feel. If someone had walked in they might have thought Henry was barely touching me....

Prayer is a heart exercise. It’s an act of communicating with God about what’s most important and pressing in your life.

I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.

There’s a traditional Kenyan prayer: “From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver...

Thinking is prayer.

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased… There is no hope for the hopeless.

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

Look before you leap. Don’t take risks lightly. Make sure someone is watching your back. Safety is a shifting illusion, move with it,” Grandpa recited in Hadadian before leaning forward and adding his own little...

I admit at the beginning that ‘popular religion,’ ‘demotic religion,’ the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest common denominator, be it in syncretizing saints with old, half-forgotten pagan godlings, or...

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

Gratitude is uplifting and helps you glow, stay beautiful, and feel eternally young as it churns up zeal and undying enthusiasm.

Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their...

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

It’s a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It’s amazing what you gain from the conversation.