It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
I don't have any way to control the Spirit or create revival. I pray that the Holy Spirit would move upon the church, but at the same time, I want to busy evangelizing. I am not one of those people who moan and pray for revival all the time, but do nothing.
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.
Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?
You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.
There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly.
I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I dont think being gay is a sin. Period.
I used to pray to recover you.
Intercessors constitute the greatest unseen group of spiritual heroes in world history. Their labors are not seen, but the results are. Those who pray for the spiritual needs of others do immeasurable good in the world, often preventing (at least for a time) divine judgment.
Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
When you get to the place where you would worry, Stop and pray.