#prayers

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#act #consoles #entrust #even #fact

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#been #bit #character #gambling #got

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#answered prayers #more #ones #over #prayers

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#ceasing #continuance #desire #longing #prayer

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767) ↗

— Voltaire

#humor #prayers #religion #ridicule #satire

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. ↗

— George Sand

#lover #menaces #more #prayers #than

As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness. ↗

— Jeffrey Lang

#heart #humanity #inspiration #islam #jeffrey

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#again #done #get #god #going

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#lives #lost #our #prayers #remain

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#gifts #god #greatest #greatest gifts #prayers