Prayer
Quotes - Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
“Prayer
is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's
weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words
without a heart.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The
function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of
the one who prays.”
―
Soren Kierkegaard
“I
cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I
talk to God but the sky is empty.”
―
Sylvia Plath
“Do
not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
―
Bruce Lee
“Lord,
make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where
there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where
there is injury, pardon;
Where
there is doubt, faith;
Where
there is despair, hope;
Where
there is darkness, light;
And
where there is sadness, joy.
O
Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to
be consoled as to console,
to
be understood as to understand,
to
be loved, as to love.
For
it is in giving that we receive,
It
is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and
it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
―
Anglican clergyman
“If
the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
―
Meister Eckhart
“Forgive
me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk
sense.”
―
Robert Frost
“Prayer
is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His
disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I
have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I
had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed
insufficient for that day.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“Let
us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only
aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who
will seek Him.”
―
Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal
Our Hearts and Homes
“You
pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the
fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
―
Kahill Gibran, The Prophet
“Don’t
worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of
intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and
become who they’re destined to be.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“The
Simple Path
Silence
is Prayer
Prayer
is Faith
Faith
is Love
Love
is Service
The
Fruit of Service is Peace”
―
Mother Teresa
“Prayer
of an Anonymous Abbess:
Lord,
thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old.
Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit
of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every
opportunity.
Release
me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs. With my
immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody
partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I will need a few
friends.
Keep
me from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point.
Grant
me the patience to listen to the complaints of others; help me to endure them
with charity. But seal my lips on my own aches and pains -- they increase with
the increasing years and my inclination to recount them is also increasing.
I
will not ask thee for improved memory, only for a little more humility and less
self-assurance when my own memory doesn't agree with that of others. Teach me
the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be wrong.
Keep
me reasonably gentle. I do not have the ambition to become a saint -- it is so
hard to live with some of them -- but a harsh old person is one of the devil's
masterpieces.
Make
me sympathetic without being sentimental, helpful but not bossy. Let me
discover merits where I had not expected them, and talents in people whom I had
not thought to possess any. And, Lord, give me the grace to tell them so.
Amen”
―
Anonymous
“The
more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry.
You'll feel more patient and less pressured.”
―
Rick Warren, The Purpose of Christmas
“A
prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
―
Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof
“In
prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
―
John Bunyan
“Is
prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
―
Corrie Ten Boom
“there
is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in
this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is
where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be,
and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him
all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with
impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as
merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.”
―
Khaled Hosseini
