Prayer Quotes - Page 28

• Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Long, Temptation

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• The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer, from gratitude you will be. Be austere. Live with the necessary and forget about desires; they are fantasies in the mind, ripples in the lake. They only disturb you, they can never lead you to any contentment.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Lakes, Mind

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• Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Gratitude, Mantras

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• Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Blessed, Thinking, Grace

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• Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• You dig deep beyond those scars and find that soft tissue again, and you massage and nurture it and bring it to life, little by little, through serving yourself well. I did it through hikes and vitamins and therapy and prayer and good friends.

  Katy Perry

  Good Friend, Tissues, Littles

  "The Odd Way Katy Perry Dealt With Divorce". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2013.

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• When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Worry, Problem

  David Jeremiah (2016). “Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change”, p.165, David C Cook

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• God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.

  Paul Billheimer

  Christ, Program, Apprenticeship

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• God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

  Andrew Murray

  Heart, Desire, Lips

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• Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Heart, Salvation

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• Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Real, Iron

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• Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.

  Craig Silvey

  Lonely, Fear, Believe

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• Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, People, Weeping

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

  Anne Rice

  Guy, Waiting, Thank God

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• Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Here And Now, Necessary Things

  "Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community".

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• I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Religion, Knees

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• I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

  Bear Grylls

  Hands, Eyebrows, Long

  Bear Grylls (2012). “Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear

  Mary Oliver

  Gratitude, Sweet, Home

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• As they climbed into their saddles, Myron bowed his head and muttered a soft prayer. “There,” Hadrian told Royce, “we’ve got Maribor on our side. Now you can relax.” “Actually,” Myron said sheepishly, “I was praying for the horses. But I will pray for you as well,” he added hastily.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Horse, Relax, Hadrian

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• Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Needs, Looks

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• Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Warrior, Men

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Dad, Believe, Home

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• Your tears are my prayers.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Tears

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Solitude, Agendas

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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