#pray

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. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#certain #certain things #co-operate #co-operation #commitment

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. ↗

— Mother Jones

#fight #hell #like #living #pray

The Indian race are waiting and praying. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#praying #race #waiting

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. ↗

— Helen Keller

#desire #distant #door #equal #forever

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#endeavoring #entirely #good #idle #meditating

My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks. ↗

— Kesha

#bodies #cover #glitter #hairspray #i

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#get #got #just #lizard #otherwise

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis. ↗

— Kesha

#destroy #hobby #i #i do #like

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#bathroom #cry #go #i #i can