No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.
In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.
My father was a minister for 50 years (with) Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love. " I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove. " And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?
When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.
The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian. ' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. '
If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.
It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for
I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.
Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you. " And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.
No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'
We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.