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