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Prayer Quotes (page 10)

Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom... Mary Oliver
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote: "Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity."
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Time For Prayer"In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."-Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. Rick Warren
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered. Thomas Pynchon
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief. Pat Conroy
C. S. Lewis quote: "A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer..."
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep. C. S. Lewis
Blaise Pascal quote: "God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity..."
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. Blaise Pascal
Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life perhaps even to mystical prayer, and to pass the fruits of your contemplation on to others. And if you cannot do so by word, then by example.Yet if this sublime fire of infused love burns in your soul, it will inevitably send forth throughout the Church... Thomas Merton
Elie Wiesel quote: "If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank..."
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough. Elie Wiesel
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well. Frederick Buechner
Mother Teresa quote: "If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts,..."
If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all. Mother Teresa
Herman Melville quote: "He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling..."
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea. Herman Melville
And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God se it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want. Dallas Willard
Then there came a vision to me, a vision that was sent in answer to my prayer, or, perchance, it was a madness born of my sorrows. H. Rider Haggard

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