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I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
When politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say, ‘No more.’
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
‘Go Tell It on the Mountain,’ its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.
So many people in my life need prayers, and I feel like I owe that to them. After all, in heaven, we feed each other.
Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.
I have my family. I’ve got the love of my wife, my daughters and friends, people who like me, think about me and send me prayers and positive energy.
Too often the word ‘prayer’ induces guilt because we don’t do enough of it. After all, I’ve never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
I was a disappointment to my parents before I drew my first breath. After five boys, they had been praying for a girl and were convinced their prayers would be answered. So when Dad rang the hospital from a public phone and heard about my arrival, he started kicking and punching the kiosk.
God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
All I’m saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don’t even trust with our daily lives… As long as there’s prayer and exams, as long as there’s games, there will be prayers.
It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.
It’s about your heart and about your consciousness. It’s not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I’ve ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Mel Gibson doesn’t need your judgment, he needs your prayers.
Now I tell everyone, ‘Just become a mom if you can’ – it is so amazing, and God answers all your prayers, and all those things that you worry about don’t matter.
Through the care of the Samaritan’s Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital, God saved my life – a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers.
Faithfully obeying God’s commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.
Most Indians are concerned about their wives and children. But when I read the script of ‘LoC,’ I realised that the jawans giving their lives for the country do not think of their wives and families. My thoughts and prayers go out to them.
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road… all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
My day starts with chants, prayers, yoga and meditation.
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things – the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.
It is through our prayers, through our acts of faith that God works in partnership with us.
This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.
I have never forced anyone to offer prayers in the team or to keep a beard.
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers – the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue – bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
When I was first writing, my little prayers were, ‘Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.’ Then it went to, ‘Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.’
I am a religious person and rely heavily on prayers.
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
I try not to miss my prayers and the 30 fasts in Ramazan, but even if I do miss them due to my cricket, I make up for them later on.
If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I’m doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
From America’s schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.
If Truman hadn’t published ‘Answered Prayers’ in parts, he’d have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
Our prayers can and should be focused on the practical, everyday struggles of life.
I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They’re my principal prayers; I don’t have a prayer list that I go down.
My family on the ground is definitely in my thoughts and in my prayers, and on my socks.
I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
I went to Ayodhya, offered my prayers, I got respect even when I was not the Chief Minister.
I remember one of my first prayers when I became a Christian was simply, ‘God, provide a job for me. I don’t care how hard I have to work, just provide a job and opportunity so that I can take care of my family.’ And you know, that was really all I asked from Him.
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.