#prayer

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #bowing #give #heads #heart

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#prayer #wish #inspirational

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God. ↗

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#prayer #inspirational

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#god #inspirational #prayer #inspirational

The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#meditation #prayer #inspirational

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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When I listen to you, God when I do what you ask me to, I am like a tree planted by a river, a tree full of fruit with leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased) ↗

— Marie-Helene Delval

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Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action. ↗

— P.T. Forsyth

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The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#constitutional #constitutional amendment #extreme #failure #fuel

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; when there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand, to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying [to ourselves] that we are born to eternal life. ↗

— St. Francis of Assisi

#faith