O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.”
“Our practice is to become more aware of life energy and to acquire a deeper understanding of living in a state of presence. This, in turn, allows consciousness to expand as it becomes more and more aware of itself.”
Source: Love Will Show You the Way: Choosing the Path of Least Resistance
“Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.”
“Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.”
“Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.”
“Our praise builds up equity in Heaven”
“Our praises are our wages.”
Source: A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: the choice sayings of his principal characters analytically and alphabetically arranged
“Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.”
“Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.”
“Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
“Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him, it is His responsi-bility.”
Source: Prayer
“Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.”
Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard
“Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.”
“Our prayer service today and my words are not meant to demonize anyone, but are intended to call attention to the diabolical influences of the devil that have penetrated our culture, both in the state and in the Church. These demonic influences are not readily apparent to the undiscerning eye, which is why they are so deceptive.”
“Our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken”
“Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.”
Source: Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)
“Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.”
“Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying”
“Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.”
Source: If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer
“Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.”
“Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.”
“Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality.”
“Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.”
“Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.”
“Our prayers have two stages. First, we pray for something. And then second, we pray for the courage to deal with the rather shocking reality that the prayer was actually answered.”
“Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.”
“Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.”
Source: The collected works of Watchman Nee
“Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.”
Source: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
“Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.”
Source: Max on Life: Discovering the Power of Prayer: Discovering the Power of Prayer
“Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.”
“Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.”
“Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.”
“Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.”
“Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.
[Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]”
“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
“Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.”
Source: The necessity of prayer
“Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.”
“Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.”
“Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.”
“Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.”
“Our predecessors around the world in the path of service and reform, made a huge progress by establishing democracy as a civilized alternative to the primitive practice of dictatorship. Now, we stand at yet another crossroads of societal progress, where we must replace our current merit-less and childish democracy with the civilized alternative of meritocratic democracy.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.”
“Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.”
“Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.”
“Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.”
“Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion