Top 1200 Contemplative Prayer Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You.

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.

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God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

A grateful thought toward heaven is of itself a prayer.

My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer.

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God.

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.

For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.