#prayer

When God has specially promised the thing, we are bound to believe we shall recieve it when we pray for it. You have no right to put in an 'if', and say, 'Lord, if it be thy will..." This is to insult God. To put an 'if' in God's promise when God has put none there, is tantamount to charging God with being insincere. ↗

— Charles Grandison Finney

#god #prayer #faith

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics. ↗

— Artur Davis

#always #ask #bustle #continue #easy

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#music #prayer #art

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#before #down #every #every night #greek

The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come. ↗

— Jonathan Rosen

#prayer #stories #talmud #death

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was. ↗

— Diet Eman

#prayer #prison #diet

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#body #certain #knees #moments #prayers

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#built #certainty #distrust #doubt #enters

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer? ↗

— Dorothy Day

#god #love #prayer #witness #words

I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#brady #bunch #character #had #i