“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.” ThinkingWayLifeSometimesUsePainBeautifulJoyFallSoundWaterPrayerSilenceSkyPrayingHappeningsVery GoodCrowdsOddOver YouFourthFloatsRocketsJulyVery Beautiful Author:Frederick Buechner
“If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.” IfsLifeJoyPrayerAcceptingPraying Author:Evagrius Ponticus
“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.” WayLifeJesusClearPrayingPhrases Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
“You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.” LifeActionPrayerMarriageStudyPrayingTestsActiveCelestialDoings Author:Tad R. Callister
“On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'” MenLifeSuccessSpiritHonestyMastersPrayingOfficePicksLet MeStrikesSavingNecksNot AfraidSuccess In LifeI PrayHeedExecutionersLieutenants Author:Thomas More
“Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.” IfsLifeNeedsGivingGodProblemWisdomAbleChangePrayerSituationCourageStrengthPrayingHandleReleaseChanging Your LifeSomething BetterPraying To GodGod Life Author:Robert Adams
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” LoveLifeMayEnoughGodDiesSpiritualityRelationshipLonelinessPrayingFindingsLonelyMeaningfulNot AloneBeing AloneSpursAll AloneFeeling LonelyBeing LonelyLonesomeFeeling AloneI Am LonelyLonely FeelingLonely And AloneAlone LonelyLonely HeartAlone LifeSad And LonelyDying Alone Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.” LifeMayWarFoundHeavenPrayerOur LivesSacrificePrayingSightAcceptable Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters
“I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.” LifeBelieveArtLyingReadingI BelievePrayerPrayingConsciousArt IsResponseBelieve In GodPraying To God Author:Reverend Malcolm Boyd
“You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.” LifeAgeMiddleConditionsTearsSweetPrayingSensationsMiddle Ages Author:James A. Garfield