Pastoral Resources

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.