If I could have one prayer answered I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody 350 kids saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it but respectfully.
Work is a prayer and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
Every Wednesday my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning say a prayer.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
It was the courts of course that took away prayer from our schools that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
Prayer does not use up artificial energy doesn't burn up any fossil fuel doesn't pollute. Neither does song neither does love neither does the dance.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life something with which nothing can be compared.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer and with the medicine she was on this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud proud and unapologetic.
Jews have a special relationship to books and the Haggadah has been translated more widely and reprinted more often than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy not a prayer book user's manual timeline poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance your prayers your sacrifice and he most humbly asks this of you.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
In the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.