prayer

Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ___ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee_?

People who fit don__ seek. The seekers are those that don__ fit.

All the seeming "coincidences" .... were actually God catching me in his arms.

Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating.You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

What is it?___ prayer.___or a child?__he nodded.__or me?__nother nod.__n a tree?___rees spend all day looking up at God.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.

There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.

In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.

Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us.

I don__ believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it...

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren't confrontations with God but with the difficulty--in my own mind, or in the human lot--of knowing what or how to pray. Lying awake at night, I could feel myself being changed--into what, I had no idea.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.