Top 1200 Evening Prayer Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.

We are just party people. We always had a drink in the evening with the music on and space to dance. It was that kind of a family.

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that.

In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.

We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.

I am a massive fan of tele. When I have an evening off I just crash in front of the sofa and binge. I love it.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

'Miscast' is a family affair. It highlights so many different aspects of the industry in that one night, and it's a great evening.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

I used to wake up at 5 A.M., and my routine involved six hours of training, both in the morning and evening.

You just have to turn on the news on the TV in the evening to realise straight away how unimportant you are as a Bundesliga coach.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.

God hears and fulfills the prayer of a man who fulfills His commandments. "Hear God in His commandments," says St. John Chrysostom, "So that He might hear you in your prayers." A man who keeps the commandments of God is always wise, patient, and sincere in his prayers. Mystery of prayer consists in the keeping of God's commandments.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."

I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

I love pairing evening gowns with hair tied up, like a boho updo or a curly chignon.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader this evening.

Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!

One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.