Prayer Quotes - Page 33

• The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

  J. B. Priestley

  Death, People, Memorial

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• 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Death, Rap, Men

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sleep, Memorial

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  Zach Wamp

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Thinking, Giving, Support

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• Jesus is the prime exemplar of life in God's presence. He lived out of an awareness of the identity God had given him, not the identity the world wanted to give him; he led an active, ongoing prayer life; he took time apart from the world to be with his Father; he made his Father's agenda his agenda; he made his Father's love for people evident in tangible ways; and so on. These are all characteristics that we should emulate in our lives.

  Kenneth Boa

  Jesus, Father, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

  John Henry Jowett

  Sacrifice, Men, Vitality

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• I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Praying, Ifs, Praying For You

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• One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Love Is, Flames

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• She went from opera, park, assembly, play,
  To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day.
  To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,
  To muse, and spill her solitary tea,
  Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon,
  Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Morning, Reading

  'Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation' (of King George I, 1715) (1717)

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• O thou child of many prayers!
  Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!
  Care and age come unawares!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Children, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.52

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• Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Sacrifice, Love Is

  "Love, a Fruit Always in Season: Daily Meditations from the Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta". Book by Mother Teresa, edited by Dorothy S. Hunt, 1987.

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• When late I attempted your pity to move,
  Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
  Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
  But-why did you kick me downstairs?

  John Philip Kemble

  Life, Moving, Pity

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• But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Long, Giving

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• What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Father, Son, Saint

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• Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
  Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
  To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
  Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

  George Croly

  Patience, Art, Struggle

  George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

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• You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Silence, Answers, Bigs

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.47, Discovery House

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• Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Lying, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Religious, Real

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• During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ignorance, Sacrifice, Epidemics

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.9, Da Capo Press

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• Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Philosophical, Religion, Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

  Frederick Busch

  Dance, Art, Way

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• One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

  Oswald Chambers

  Soul, Body, Submissive

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

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• God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.

  John Stott

  Liberty, Scripture, Worship

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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