Top 1200 Sincere Prayer Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.

Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God's sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust.

Be creative in that sense and your creativity will become an offering to God. God has given you so many gifts, Garima; something HAS to be done just in deep thankfulness. But remember: with no motive, not as a means but as an end unto itself. Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake, and prayer for prayer's sake.

Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

I definitely don't want to make Nicholas Kristof defend your employer, no one should have to do that but a sincere question.

God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

I'd like to make a sincere lament for the victims of Sichuan earthquake. I will pray for them with all of my heart.

I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'

Our families need to ask for the gift of the Spirit! Through prayer, even in the busiest times, we give time back to God, we find the peace that comes from appreciating the important things, and we encounter the joy of God’s unexpected gifts. Through daily prayer may our homes become, like the house of Martha and Mary, places where Jesus always finds a warm welcome.

Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.

Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

I will engage in sincere negotiations with the United States and China to find a solution to the THAAD problem.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

We still had the prayer support of our church. We shot this film [War Room] in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we had about 85 churches rise up and support us across racial and denominational lines, and many of them were praying for us, and we built some prayer teams where we had people on set praying.

My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood.

Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.