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Quotes About Prayers II
By peace | July 27, 2007
Prayers is an attempt to count the stars of our souls. ~ James Melvin Washington
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed. ~ James Montgomery
The sense of the holy manifests itself chiefly by prayer. ~ Alexis Carrel
No sincere prayer leaves us where it finds us. ~ Stella Terril Mann
No man has ever prayed without learning something. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that true prayer makes us into what we imagine. To pray to God leads to becoming like God. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Prayer is essentially a process by which ideas are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this. ~ Georgia Harkness
Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Everytime you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. ~ Feodor Dostoevski
As for prayer… follow your own way of speaking to God sincerely, lovingly, confidently and simply, as your heart dictages. ~ Jane De Chantal
If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
The most simple rule for good prayer is honesty and humility. One can never go wrong with those two. Talk honestly to God. Don’t give God the self you think you’re supposed to be. Give God yourself in your nakedness, who you really are, even if that means giving God your anger or distractions. ~ Richard Rohr
For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one’s eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it’s a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus. ~ St. Therese of Lisieux
Prayers is a psychological place, a spiritual place, a place where we go to get out of ourselves, a place created and inhabited by God. ~ Richard Rohr
Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Praying means placing ourselves at God’s disposal so that, for a moment or two, he may accomplish what he has always wanted to do in us and what we never give him a chance to. ~ Louis Evely
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