In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.
Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time. . . we understand how the Psalter can be prayer to God and yet God's own Word, precisely because here we encounter the praying Christ. . . because those who pray the psalms are joining in with the prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.
Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable. " It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.
When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work – when his feet are not familiar with God’s ways – when his tongue is seldom or never used in prayer and praise – when his eyes are blind to the beauty of the kingdom of heaven – when his mind is full of the world, and has no room for spiritual things – when these marks are to be found in a man the word of the Bible is the right word to use about him, and that word is, ‘Dead. ’
We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting. . . is the appointed place for the reception of power.
prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.
I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.
My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
