As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent. . . . This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people do not pray; they only beg. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She makes long, long prayers, they say — so long that she has been found in the morning fainting on the cold floor of the convent church. . . . They all say she will have a very high place in heaven; but it seems to me, unless there is a very great difference between the highest and lowest places in heaven, it is a great deal of trouble to take. —Elizabeth Rundle Charles More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is trying to sell you something, but you don't want to buy. That is what your suffering is: your fantastic haggling, your manic screaming over the price! —Hafiz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: God listening prayer care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: God power prayer control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He didn't know exactly what to pray for; in which he was like most other people. For our real prayer, if we had the wits or the courage to formulate it, would be a general plea for everything to be all right forever. —Angela Thirkell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness. —Emo Philips More about this quote Tags: forgiveness prayer theft stealing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upward. —Vladimir Nabokov More about this quote Tags: anger rain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is "You've got to be kidding. —Jimmy Carter More about this quote Tags: God prayer answers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: hunger religion needs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I once asked a Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He said, "Fuck it, " as in "Fuck it; it's in God's hands. —Anthony Hopkins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing. —Francis of Assisi More about this quote Tags: God prayer desire want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email