Prayer
Quotes - Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can
“Prayer
will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
―
John Bunyan
“Let
your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about
everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process.”
―
Germany Kent
“Prayer
is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his
greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”
―
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“Pray
to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.”
―
Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“If
you want to protect me, prayer is just as powerful a weapon as that gun you
carry.”
―
Karen Witemeyer, Short-Straw Bride
“What
the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations
or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of
prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but
through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint
plans, but men -- men of prayer.”
―
E.M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer
“Pounce
had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He
stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped,
Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now
there was a proper god, making himself useful!
Since
my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and
to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I
wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me, or they hadn't heard my
blasphemy.”
―
Tamora Pierce, Terrier
“When
we retire at night, we constructively review our day. Were we resentful,
selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to
ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind
and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of
ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others,
of what we could pack into the stream of life? But we must be careful not to
drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our
usefulness to others. After making our review we ask God’s forgiveness and
inquire what corrective measures should be taken.
On
awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans
for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially
asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for
after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much
higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
In
thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine
which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or
a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often
surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.
What
used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working
part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious
contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all
times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and
ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more
and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.
We
usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all
through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need
to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will,
and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may ask for
ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for
our own selfish ends. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it
doesn’t work. You can easily see why.”
―
Bill Wilson
“The
best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God
in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.”
―
Joseph Smith Jr.
“When
man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.”
―
Karl Rahner, The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
“Communicating
with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time
it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times.
Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are
connected as One through our divine link with God.”
―
Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
“At
such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In
prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he
remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of
dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is,
in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to
God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his
protecting arm.”
―
Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave
“Prayer
is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the
winner.”
―
Amit Ray
“A
God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad
ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single
happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short;
who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children
to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children
with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and
invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and
forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths
morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet
commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the
responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where
it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness,
invites his poor abused slave to worship him!”
―
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
“When
we see grey clouds and lightning causing a storm; God shows us His rainbow in
its most beautiful form.”
―
Carolyn Cutler Hughes
“Answered
prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.”
―
Andrew Murray
