The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.
No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.
We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.
If we know how to pray, we know how to live.
We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field. ' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.
It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.
Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.
The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you. "
We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
Excuse me, pray. " Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown. ' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor. . . . Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.
A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.