Prayer Quotes - Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men

 

Prayer Quotes - Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men 

“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”

― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

 

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

― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

 

“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”

― Martin Luther

 

“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”

― Mother Teresa

 

“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”

― Corrie Ten Boom

 

“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”

― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

 

“Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.”

― Andrew Murray

 

“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 prayer is an education.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

 

“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”

― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

 

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

 

[Mark Twain, a Biography]”

― Mark Twain

 

“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

 

Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.”

― Oswald Chambers

 

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”

― Shannon L. Alder

 

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

 

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]”

― John F. Kennedy

 

“I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.”

― Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?

 

“Dear Jesus, do something.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

 

“Give me the Love that leads the way

The Faith that nothing can dismay

The Hope no disappointments tire

The Passion that'll burn like fire

Let me not sink to be a clod

Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God”

― Amy Carmichael

 

“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

 

“Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.”

― A.W. Tozer

 

“Prayer for Love

Thank You, Creator of the Universe for the gift of Life you have given me,

Thank You for giving me everything that I have ever needed,

Thank You for the opportunity to experience this beautiful body and this wonderful mind,

Thank You for living inside me with all Your Love and Your pure and boundless Spirit,

with Your warm and radiating Light.

Thank You for using my words, for using my eyes, for using my heart to share your love wherever I go.

I love You just the way you are and because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am.

Help me to keep the Love and the Peace in my Heart and to make that Love a new way of life, that I may live in Love the rest of my life.

Amen.”

― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom