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.

Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like.

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,...

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.

Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been...

Praying about everything in our lives and keeping quiet can keep us out of a lot of trouble.

Our struggle is–isn’t it?–to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are...

Prayers should be for preventing war, not fighting it.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don’t help me. I want to do it by myself so that You’ll know I’ve found something I can do for You … I am...

Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was “an experience in theology”. They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that...

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

Good morning, God. Another beautiful day. I’m still here, and so is the sun. Thank you. Right, now let’s get down to business.

thanks.

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Faith is the muscle of the spirit. It is strengthened through study, prayer, and meditation. As exercise builds muscle and our bodies become strong; study, prayer, and meditation builds faith and our spirits become strong.

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

William looked up… through his tears… past the catwalk and lights… past the sky… through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in,...

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

When Authority is discovered and faith applied, power is manifested

Always pray in good and bad times; tough times shouldn’t be your only reasons to remember God.

You go to bed different… tossing and turning is the norm… you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever you go. You wonder if you are strong enough to climb out of...

God doesn’t want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.

If materials things only are what you’re talking about when you say ,” I’m blessed”. Then You have no idea what a blessing is. To wake up in the morning , being alive its a...

I have learned in life to be happy regardless of life circumstancesI have learned in life to be humble in greatnessI have learned in life to respect everyone and not to look down upon othersI...

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

The Christian living is a spiritual welfare. As the year draws to an end, seek the face of the Lord for guidance in the coming year.

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...