God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then);...

Every answer I seek lies within me. Any outward seeking for my answers can only take me as far as my inner self permits.

Life is beautiful. Like a beautiful blue wave, it ebbs and flows, sometimes gushing forth and sometimes receding quietly.

Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.

Christmas is our annual reminder to look up—pondering celestial stars, to look out—serving those in need, and to look down—glorifying our Lord in humble prayer.

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.

When things are good in your life, take the time to build and fortify your relationship with the Lord. Never become complacent about your relationship with Him, because there’s always room to grow DEEPER!

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that – an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found,...

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God’s listening ears. Topics: Prayer, MeditationI am ready to meet God face to face tonight...

… I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. ‘Why,’says I, I’ve got prayers to sell.

…aconsejaría yo a los que tienen oración, en especial al principio, procuren amistad y trato con otras personas que traten de lo mismo. Es cosa importantísima, aunque no sea sino ayudarse unos a otros con...

God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the same particles...

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved...

That,” she said, “is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It’s like saying you shouldn’t get...

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we’re to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.

The devil doesn’t give a hoot if you’re a pastor, attend church or read your bible. His main priority is to distract you from praying in Jesus’ name and applying the word of God to...

To be in Christ means to be like Him, to make ours the very movement of His life. And as He “ever liveth to make intercession: for all “that come unto God by him” (Heb...

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

friends,” we can receive his strength in our weakness; his guidance in our steps; and his mercy when we stumble along life’s path.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.

What’s to rationalize? You mean you shouldn’t pray if you haven’t got your s–t together? This is another fairly common misconception of faith, which is that people who go to church, or people who pray,...

I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more.

Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, ‘Prayer happened, and I was there” more than “I prayed today”. All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being...

Heavenly Father, let your glory be seen in our lives.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

The angel said, “I like black-and-white films more than color because they’re more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It’s sort of like prayer.

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I...

I am blessed with 365 days of thanksgiving and answered prayer.

let your desires be His prayer in you. trust them. let them take you by the hand.let them walk you forward into the next moment, and the next, and the next, and the next…

God always keeps His promises.

1.01 MY PRAYERNo stone may turn when I walk,No being may pain when I talk,No man may dread of my knock,And this I ask of You to stock.[1]- 1

Grant us a vision, Lord, To see what we can achieve To reach out beyond ourselves To share our lives with others To stretch our capabilities To increase our sense of purpose To be aware...

I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.