Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.
Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.
After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit. ' I want one so bad.
Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.
I've learned. . . That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.
For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.
Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U. S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
Because you pray after you play.
I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.
Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.
The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.