#prayer

God hears your every thought, whether you dress it up with 'Thee' and 'Thou' or not. ↗

— Catherine Richmond

#inspirational #prayer #inspirational

Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms. ↗

— Mindy Starns Clark

#prayer #inspirational

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner. ↗

— Amit Ray

#inspirational #prayer #inspirational

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. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#continuing #creation #exercise #faculties #given

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

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#change #changes #does #god #him

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#blend #breathe #creep #each #earthly

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#celestial #god #lab #leading #makes

Music is a form of prayer. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#music #prayer