People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?
The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.
But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.
He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.
Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous. '
When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
If you're praying, you're not worrying, and if you're worrying, you're not praying!
When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.
The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
When you sing, you pray twice.
I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.
There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.