Prayer
Quotes - Why do you pray?
“And
shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,
Until
it be according unto mine?
But,
no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather
I
pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.
I
pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing,
I
pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire—
See
in my quiet places, wishes thronging—
Forbid
them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.”
― Amy
Carmichael
“Prayer
is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your
deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.”
―
Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“I
am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve
to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their
orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three
speeds.”
―
Quentin Crisp
“Today
Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that
there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and
expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser
or man-pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You
and with men and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son.
Thank You Lord.”
―
Joyce Meyer, Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing
“Your
Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams—
where you can live with purpose, unafraid.”
―
Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
“Writing
is prayer.”
―
Franz Kafka
“Why
do you pray?" he asked me, after a moment.
Why
did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?
"I
don't know why," I said, even more disturbed and ill at ease. "I
don't know why."
After
that day I saw him often. He explained to me with great insistence that every
question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer. "Man raises
himself toward God by the questions he asks Him," he was fond of
repeating. "That is the true dialogue. Man questions God and God answers.
But we don't understand His answers. We can't understand them. Because they
come from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. You will
find the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!"
"And
why do you pray, Moshe?" I asked him. "I pray to the God within me
that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”
―
Elie Wiesel, Night
“The
Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.”
―
E.M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer
“O
heavenly Father,
protect
and bless all things
that
have breath: guard them
from
all evil and let them sleep in peace.”
―
Albert Schweitzer
“What
you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.”
―
Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
“I
can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be
alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“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.”
―
St. Therese of Lisieux
“He
does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little
act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your
sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He
has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as
often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company;
the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need
not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.”
―
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
“God
bless us, every one!”
―
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Lord,
make me an instrument of your peace;
where
there is hatred, let me sow love;
when
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.
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 [to ourselves] that we are born to eternal life.”
―
Francis Of Assisi
“...he
prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and
could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who
could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all
children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl,
and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this
loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our
being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too
often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might
be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for
building a better world, so he prayed as a lament, as a consolation, and as a
hope....”
―
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
