To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
When you lie down with a short prayer commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so trust Him with yourself as you must do when you are dying.
Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances but we assist these works with finances prayer and counseling especially overseas in areas such as Siberia Africa South America.
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome .
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control small disciplines of prayer feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Having soon discovered to be great I must appear so and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society and wrapped myself in mystery devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat leading to bad science and worse religion.
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray you begin to feel the sense of being sent that the divine compulsion is upon you.
Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.
Prayer is mans greatest power!
After much prayerful consideration I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
My constant prayer my number one foreign goal is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.