Prayer Warfa Quotes

Delay is not denial.There is a waiting time ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

You meet not so much to sing as to pray, or, better yet, to pray in and through your song. Gregorian chant is for you a privileged form of prayer. You are drawn to it because you perceive the link between music and the sacred, between beauty and truth. ~ Jacques Hourlier

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce

Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer: the soul's colloquy with the Creator, mortal man's dialogue with the Deity: with magical incantation and the ritual of the 'spell. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer. ~ Diane Ackerman

I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell. ~ Sandra Dallas

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life. ~ David Hasselhoff

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer. ~ Samuel I. Prime

All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the "great fruit of revival." In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven. ~ Henry Blackaby

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer. ~ Jim Gaffigan

I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times. ~ Aaron Rodgers

The pelicans paddle
in coils of waves and light. Low tide
reveals fissures of saltwater and rock.
From the smallest crevices
color insists-colonies of jade
anemones, a purple starfish harvest, barnacles
hiding beaks of unbleached linen, black mussel
bouquets. Between the air and sea,
-this, one large prayer.
I kneel. ~ Michelle Peñaloza

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him. ~ Teresa Of Avila

Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual. ~ Watchman Nee

Phyllis and I pray these chaplets together; at three o'clock, every first Saturday. We are never in the same town. For months, we do not speak on the phone or email. We pray these chaplets for just a few minutes, maybe as many as sixty minutes, once a month on a Saturday afternoon. Intimacy with the elusive God is that kind of intimacy. It is the closeness of praying together, apart. ~ Lauren F. Winner

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage. ~ Diana Butler Bass

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it. ~ E. M. Bounds

Now love doesn't stop at death - or if it does, it's a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief could almost be defined as the form love takes when the object of love has been removed; it is love embracing an empty space, love kissing thin air and feeling the pain of nothingness. But there is no reason at all why love should discontinue the practice of holding the beloved in prayer before God. ~ N. T. Wright

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works. ~ Pope Francis

Wisdom from Within

Energy is a funny thing. It can be used, stored or even abused. The energy that we put into life, and I don't mean running around, but through prayer and positive thoughts. These can be stored and then called upon in an hour of need. This is why miracles happen. No matter what religion or faith you are.
The universe is here for a reason and you have to find out what that reason is. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer. ~ Pope Francis

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation. ~ Ilchi Lee

Let gratitude be your pure prayer. ~ Debasish Mridha

The prayer of the church determines the history and the fate of its people as well as the whole earth ~ Sunday Adelaja

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. ~ Eckhart Tolle

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good. ~ Oprah Winfrey

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship. ~ Jurgen Moltmann

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did. ~ Thomas F. Wilson

You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. ~ Lorenzo Scupoli

Have you experienced communion with God and Christ? Have you sensed His presence? Do you have a love for Him that draws you to His presence? Have you experienced the sweet communion of prayer - the exhilarating joy of talking to the living God? Have you experienced the refreshing, almost overwhelming sense of grace that comes upon you when you discover a new truth in His Word? ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him. ~ Sunday Adelaja

I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire
and frost of memories

of the everlastingness
of love

the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer. ~ Sanober Khan

Joffrey received loving kisses from the bride's father and his two new brothers, Loras and Garlan. No one seemed in any great rush to kiss Tyrion. When the king and queen had taken their seats, the High Septon rose to lead a prayer. ~ George R R Martin

Lighten up" (don't) turn prayer into a work but listen for God and let oneself be surprised. Overly rigid adherence to a spiritual direction built around formal liturgical adherence and highly structured prayer time can work against the sanctification of the ordinary. Christ is effectively imprisoned, to be visited at stated times and otherwise ignored". ~ Margaret Guenther

We all have a divine light within us," Hayes says, breaking the moment, his hands in a prayer position at the center of his chest. "But it's our job to seek that divine light and let it shine. To take what's on the inside and show it on the outside. It is the only way to true enlightenment." As ~ Rebekah Crane

Prayer is not meant to always give us the answers we want. It is not the resting place upon which the scales of our faith and trust are balanced. It is not the reason for faith, but rather the result of a faith we already have. ~ Elizabeth D. Marie

Don't take pride to prayer. Take prayer to pride and eliminate it. It's not a good friend, actually. ~ Art Hochberg

Private prayer is the drill ground for our more public exercises, neither can we long neglect it without being out of order when before the people. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God bless us, every one! ~ Charles Dickens