Pastoral Resources

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.