#prayer

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#automatically #bandied #common #days #form

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. ↗

— George Muller

#enjoy #enjoyment #give #gone #make

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#dedicating #every #i #morning #off

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 most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, "It reminds me of straw. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#prayer #dreams

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. ↗

— Richard Powers

#last #prayer #reading #secular

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer. ↗

— William Proxmire

#knows #lord #pope #prayer #tax

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#answered #breast cancer #cancer #effort #embryos

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