#prayer

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#now #prayer #right #school #tell

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? ↗

— Pierre Loti

#break #could #determination #duty #fast

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#cold iron #diffuse #efforts #first #frantic

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. ↗

— George Meredith

#better #better man #his #man #prayer

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#actor #catholic #could #form #found

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#comes #died #head #i #image

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#assistance #benefit #christ #desires #feels

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. ↗

— Richard Powers

#last #prayer #reading #secular

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#god #leave #makes #merge #own

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. ↗

— Edith Stein

#church #degree #devotion #elevation #gift