The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'
We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.
I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
Dear soulmate,
I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.
I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world -
Something good will happen.
First I stopped believing in hell, then the afterlife. Sometimes that connection is still there, and I'll feel an impulse to pray if I'm stressed or upset.
I think we pray, we make a clear-headed decision, and then we quit being so mean to each other. We've got to stop that.
Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.
I'm a morning person so I like to be up by 6 am to wash and pray before the sun rises, and then have a tea at the kitchen table.
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'
They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?
Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.
God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.
Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.
In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.
I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.
To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.
Leading sinners to salvation en masse - or one by one - it is all the same. I eat it. I sleep it. I dream it. I speak it. I write it. I pray it. I weep it. I laugh it.
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.
If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back.
(on re-signing for Liverpool)
Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.
First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!
Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.
I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.
Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.
I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
I'm kind of pinching myself in the morning. Like, wait, you really did pray to have a body of work that stays diversified and interesting. And I have it!
Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.
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