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“Prayer has mighty power to move mountains because the Holy Spirit is ready both to encourage our praying and to remove the mountains hindering us.”

Moving Spirit Prayer Ready Praying Holy Mountain Holy Spirit Remove Move Mountains

Book:Touch the World Through Prayer

Source: Touch the World Through Prayer

“The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.”

Doe Spirit Goal Prayer Praying Useless

Book:Mighty Prevailing Prayer

Source: Mighty Prevailing Prayer

“There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer.”

Wells Character Prayer Answers Praying Degrees Spring Flow Saint Answers To Prayer

Author:James Stalker

“Pray, hope, don't worry.”

Prayer Worry Praying

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.”

People Ifs Doe Care Prayer Praying Satan Christian Prayer

Author:Paul Billheimer

“Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!”

“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.”

Thinking Praying Forgiveness Forgiving Nonsense Forgive Me Saying A Prayer No Nonsense Please Forgive Me Talking Nonsense God Forgive Me

Author:Robert Frost

“If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.”

Ifs Life Joy Prayer Accepting Praying

Author:Evagrius Ponticus

“Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.”

Persons Spiritual Prayer Perfect Attention Praying Formulas

Author:John Climacus

“The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.”

Ifs Ideas Whole Christian Spiritual Spirit Prayer Compassion Praying Holy Weakness Longing Intellect Flight Holy Spirit Orthodox Orthodox Christian Thoughts And Ideas

Author:Evagrius Ponticus

“I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.”

World Way God Christian Given Religious Prayer Praying Breaths Our World

Book:To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

Source: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."”

God Christian Religious Vision Clear Praying Verses

Book:To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

Source: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.”

“Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown.”

“As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet."”

Action Moving Feet Praying Quaker

Book:The concentric perspective: what's in it from me

Source: The concentric perspective: what's in it from me

“I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Morning Praying Wake Up Every Morning

Author:Christopher Bollen

“I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.”

Sleep Praying Sermons I Pray Praying To God Never Sleep I Pray To God

Author:Francois Rabelais

“To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.”

Lasts Belief Memories Praying Expectations Injury Contradiction Monument Our Memories Duration Last Day Advent

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.”

Way Enough Lasts Prayer Morning Impossible Praying Circumstances Breaths Permit Our Prayers Noon

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.”

Ifs Speak Lines Player Stage Praying Speech Mouths Towns Tongue Spokes I Pray Whirlwind Theatre Acting

Author:William Shakespeare

“Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.”

Soul Prayer Grief Lord Praying Mercy My Soul Thee

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.”

Thinking Watches Sun Praying Prove Shadow Mark Trials Passing Passings Undone

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.”

Night Prayer Keys Praying Christian Inspirational Locks Lock And Key

Author:Thomas Fuller

“I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.”

Christian Night Church Religious Views Christianity Wife Praying Regard Catholic Dinner My Wife Every Night

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.”

Ifs Literature Speak Justice Blood Praying Creatures Mercy Innocent Shed Nobel Praying To God

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.”

Way Want I Can Black Talking Doubt Tree Praying Woods Invisible My Way No Doubt Hug Oaks Talkers Oak Tree

Author:Mary Oliver

“I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.”

Needs Years Left Praying Despair Obsessed Working It Good Years

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.”

Men Together Praying Tongue This Life Contracts Ritual Brotherhood

Author:Madame de Stael

“Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.”

World Lying Duty Praying Welfare

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.”

Men Whole Prayer Praying Speech Creator Needles Stitches

Author:Louise Erdrich

“If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should.”

Ifs Thinking Should Care Praying Don't Care Caring I Don't Care Toms Cruise Turtles

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.”

Might Fire Praying Fingers Temptation Occasions Testing Thrust

Author:Thomas Secker

“I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.”

May Care Dies Fields Praying I Pray Praying To God I Pray To God

Author:Winfield Scott Hancock

“After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do.”

Moving Accepting Praying Winner Adaptability

Author:Ann Jillian

“There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.”

Should Care Praying Bird Weak Chests Injured Cradle Fluttering

Author:Gabriel Macht

“CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.”

Heart Mean Shows Today Spirit Jesus Christ Simple Christianity Mystery Praying My Heart Holy Blessing Depth Holy Spirit I Pray Wondrous Christmas Day Simple Words

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar. To each one of you, I ask you to continue to support me by praying to God to let me be his gentle and firm pastor of his church.”

Way Heart Asks Church Prayer Support Praying Let Me Affection Various Firm Gentle Pastor Praying To God Follow Me Afar Support Me

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.”

Sometimes Church Wonderful Praying Caring Princess Diana Philanthropist

Author:Princess Diana

“Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now.”

Artist Prayer Share Praying Right Now Bases Encounters I Pray

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.”

People Ifs Way Said Humor Hands Would Be Funny Night Guy Praying Gun Knees Every Night Ufo Alabama Shotguns Abduction

Author:Bill Hicks

“I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.”

Persons Praying Rational Accurate I Pray

Author:Emmy Rossum

“St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.”

House Christ Hours Praying Discipleship Bosoms Pray For Me

Author:Eric Milner-White

“When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.”

Believe Bigs Happens Belief Praying Things Happen Big Things

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.”

Self Prayer Healing Praying Caring For Others Answered Prayers Blessing To Others

Author:Michael E. DeBakey

“The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.”

Mean Lasts Prayer Trouble Praying Resorts Our Prayers Just Do It

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.”

People Men Want Giving Doe Home Jobs Desire Nations Cities Conditions Position Praying Towns Factories Godly Praying To God

Author:Marcus Garvey

“What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.”

“I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.”

Truth Speak Peace Prayer Praying Instruments I Pray

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.”

People Looks Hands Hate Actors Lost Sex Praying Bed I Hate Screens Look Up Convince Folds Praying To God Spotlight

Author:Orson Welles

“I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”

Want Praying Bores

Author:Orson Welles