Prayers For Loss Of Mother Quotes

During the prayers of the day, there was one less "amen". ~ Phindiwe Nkosi

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation. ~ Mother Teresa

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can't fight your way out of as easily. ~ Ally Condie

I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. ~ Melissa Rivers

Jesus is the mediator of justice; Mary obtains for us grace; for, as St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. Germanus, St. Antoninus, and others say, it is the will of God to dispense through the hands of Mary whatever graces he is pleased to bestow upon us. With God, the prayers of the saints are the prayers of His friends, but the prayers of Mary are the prayers of His mother. ~ Alphonsus Liguori

The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family. ~ Jonathan Reckford

My name is Sherman Alexie and I was born from loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss.

And loss. ~ Sherman Alexie

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman. ~ Wes Anderson

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ... ~ Jane Welsh Carlyle

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away. ~ Maya Rudolph

It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church. ~ Wesley Clark

No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother. ~ Kristin Hannah

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses. ~ Ed Seykota

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers. ~ Edwin Arnold

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her. ~ Honore De Balzac

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother ~ Anna Freud

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. ~ David LaChapelle

Prayer is the key that unlocks all doors. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles. ~ Mariska Hargitay

Dangerous prayers are risky and life-stretching. Dangerous prayers come out of a spirit of brokenness. Dangerous prayers are filled with boldness and daring faith. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

I was definitely a tomboy. My mother liked to dress me differently, but it was her loss when I came home with mud in my hair every day. I've always been more comfortable with guys; I don't know why. ~ Troian Bellisario

Mrs. Sussex said Byron's loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn't want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if she'd never been there. ~ Rachel Joyce

My mother's footsteps
Were so quiet
I barely heard her leave ~ John Green

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. ~ Truman Capote

Then perhaps there is a third kind of loss
the loss that comes when you notice the limits of your knowledge of God, when you feel bereft of guidance, when you feel the loss of God's saving power or of God's grace. This feeling of loss is really a way of noting, and mourning, God's hiddenness. This is the loss you name when you ask why God does not answer your prayers. It is the loss entailed when you realize that Jesus is more mysterious and more inscrutible than you had at first understood. ~ Lauren F. Winner

You can't know how much a mother loves. ~ Jessica Fortunato

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever. ~ Abraham Lincoln

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there. ~ Damian Lewis

I don't believe there is such a thing as unanswered prayer. There is misguided prayers, selfish prayers, and doubting prayers, but true prayer doesn't go unanswered - it is merely abandoned prematurely due to lack of persistence and faithful endurance. ~ Leslie Ludy

Anytime you pray serious prayers and have attacks in your dream, know that the prayers worked. So what you should do is to continue with the same prayers. ~ D.K. Olukoya

Because there is no such thing as an "almost" mother. Seven bouquets from your seven angels. Happy Mother's Day, Princess. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered. ~ William Wake

Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties). ~ Oliver Sacks

Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world. ~ Masaru Emoto

The answer to most prayers is no. ~ Alex George

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works. ~ Agnes Baker Pilgrim

The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality. ~ Dada Bhagwan

Throughout my life, there were a few hard days. Days where even when I tried to be happy, my heart still cracked, and Mother's Day was one of those. For others, it stood as a celebration. For me, it spoke of loss and failure. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers. ~ Melissa Rivers

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room ~ Audrey Niffenegger

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered. ~ Augustus William Hare

A mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has to develop her self-confidence and self-esteem through alternate means. Without a mother or mother-figure to guide her, a daughter also has to piece together a female self-image of her own. ~ Hope Edelman

I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee! ~ Emily Bronte

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. ~ Mother Teresa

... struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mother's sorrow and his sister's longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermit's skull. ~ Louise Penny

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. ~ Oswald Chambers

We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves. ~ Ed Asner

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'. ~ Dan Brown

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. ~ Patti Smith

Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Lord heal the broken hearted. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly. ~ Laozi

It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. ~ Khaled Hosseini

The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person ... From your soul's perspective, you are as great an addition to the world as Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, and subtracting you from the cosmic equation would be just as great a loss. The most exquisite silk remains intact if you pull out a thread, but the snag will show. ~ Deepak Chopra

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. ~ Douglas Coupland

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~ Garth Brooks

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

Let's face it – prayers without desperation are pretend prayers. ~ Art Hochberg

Live as if your prayers are to be answered. ~ Wayne Dyer

Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life. ~ Mark Batterson

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers. ~ Joyce Meyer

Surely the Mother Above loved my children more. She took so many of them away from me. ~ George R.R. Martin

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers. ~ Robert Breault

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense. ~ Tracy K. Smith

When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Prayers are a very personal and sacred thing. One prays when one feels like. Feel disgusted when I see people forcing others to pray, carry out certain rituals or chant the prayers loudly on loudspeakers. ~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing? ~ Nicole Krauss

Mother's Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict. ~ Gloria Steinem

Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land ~ Ruta Sepetys

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. ~ Ouida

One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive. ~ Audrey Niffenegger

God had not answered her mother's prayers and she doubted He would answer hers. ~ Sarah E. Ladd

A mother's evening prayers for her child are one of the most powerful curse-fighters in the world. ~ Jason Lethcoe

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it. ~ Anne Heche

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up. ~ William Jenkyn

If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time. ~ Will Schwalbe

Spells are just prayers with more steps and a name that scares people. ~ Lily Anderson

The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift ... ~ Lynn Austin

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. ~ Shams Tabrizi

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. ~ Abraham Lincoln

...as if prayers ever put out a fire. ~ Ann Aguirre

Long prayers are like nagging. ~ Dodie Smith

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us. ~ Perry Brass

Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered. ~ Tony Robbins

Weight gains aren't failures – they're learning curves. ~ Rachel Stevenson

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. ~ John G. Lake

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers ~ Willa Cather

There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach. ~ Meghan O'Rourke

Ten years from now, her mother might not even recognize her. Already she was different, but the day would come when she'd be this person her mother had never seen. There would be other people - someone like Carolyn or Alan, or even Violet - who had known her longer than her mother ever did. ~ Joyce Maynard

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know. ~ A. Lynn

All stories are, in some form, prayers. ~ Brian Doyle

Your prayers are prophecies. You can write the future of your family with your prayers ~ Mark Batterson

All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The world lost something when you died, Tod, and I know that wasn't easy for your family. But the world's loss was Kaylee's gain. I hope the two of you have the forever her mother and I never got."
"I will do my damnedest to make sure of that."
"I know you will. ~ Rachel Vincent

My most dangerous prayers have come in moments of deep frustration and seasons of brokenness. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

Make every effort to hear directly from God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita