#prayer

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#does #far #god #him #himself

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#each #equal #member #person #perspective

Prayer begins where human capacity ends. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#capacity #ends #human #human capacity #prayer

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. ↗

— Josephine Baker

#best #best way #draw #heaven #i

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#again #done #get #god #going

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#awake #beating #cover #each #fall

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. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#church #devote #every #friends #group

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enable #invented #people #poetry #prayers

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track. ↗

— Lewis Black

#country #doing #get #i #need

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #divorce #dying #god #grief