#prayer

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

#act #consoles #entrust #even #fact

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.' ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#aside #basis #constantly #daily #daily basis

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. ↗

— Joseph Murphy

#prayer #life

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#christian #god #life-quotes #prayer #pushing-buttons

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#life

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#meaning #prayer #trouble #life

When I look back, I realize I was praying for something God had already given me. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #prayer #experience

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#religion #life

Love is the only prayer I know. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#prayer #love

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#heartache #prayer #sorrow #sorrow