Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement..
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace fr….
A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought ….
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction..
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble..
I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syring….
The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indi….
My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers..
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?.
There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward..
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher's St….
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives..
Without doubt I praise the wild excellence..
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the….
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for….
Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome..
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a c….
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss b….
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome ..
Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?.
One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer..