"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." Victor Hugo - Victor-Marie Hugo,(26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician.
"Back in the seventeenth century, Francois Fénelon wrote some words" Victor Hugo - Victor-Marie Hugo,(26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician.
"Don't worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." Philippians 4:6
"He felt a provoking urge to flee to Lord's Chapel and kneel at the railing." 3rd person referring to Timothy Kavanagh in Somewhere Safe with Someone Good by Jan Karon
"I thank my God every time I remember you . . ." Philippians 1:3
"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best and man will not take it." George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll.
"Meditation is the discipline that lights the fuse between the understanding of the mind and the tasting of the heart - the knowledge of God and the joy of his presence." John Starke, author of The Possibility of Prayer : Finding Stillness with God in a Restless World
"Prayer does not equip us for greater works— prayer is the greater work." Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
"Praying together affirms you as one flesh, and among the endless benefits it bestows, it can greatly enhance your sexual communication." Taken from A Common Life, a book in The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
"Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them bay be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them: they outlive a generation, outlive and age, outlive a world" E.M. Bounds - Edward McKendree Bounds (August 15, 1835 – August 24, 1913) prominently known as E.M. Bounds, was an American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy.
"Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil [or harsh]" Psalms 141:3-4
"Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them. Talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them . . . If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say." Francois Fénelon - François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.
"There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult, done." James Hudson Taylor (21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 51 years in China.
"There will be many times when fear breaks in. We can never be taken prisoner if we greet it with prayer." Father Tim, a character in A Common Life, a book in The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
"We two form a multitude." Ovid; Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.
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