Pastoral Resources

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

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.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.