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...several of the first presidents, including Jefferson and Madison, generally refused to issue public prayers, despite importunings to do so. Under pressure, Madison relented in the War Of 1812, but held to his belief that chaplains shouldn't be appointed to the military or be allowed to open Congress.Collection: Prayer
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.Collection: Prayer
We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.Collection: Prayer
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.Collection: Prayer
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.Collection: Prayer
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.Collection: Prayer
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.Collection: Prayer
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!Collection: Prayer
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.Collection: Prayer
When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.Collection: Prayer
I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer.Collection: Prayer
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.Collection: Prayer
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.Collection: Prayer
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.Collection: Prayer
For me it's the hypnotic simplistic reduction of hooks into some form of prayer wheel or something. I really appreciate people who can work in those quiet environments making really precious latticework like lace in a weaving but, for me, I like it a bit more hairy and like psychedelic Peruvian knits or something! You know what I mean? I go into fabric analogies, you know.Collection: Prayer
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.Collection: Prayer
Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earthCollection: Prayer
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.Collection: Prayer
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.Collection: Prayer
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.Collection: Prayer
Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.Collection: Prayer
I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.Collection: Prayer
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.Collection: Prayer
The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayersCollection: Prayer
In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.Collection: Prayer