THIS THING CALLED PRAYER Today is the day I open my "Prayer Envelope." This is a monthly ritual with me, something that began the time I complained to my friend Margaret about how few of…
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FRANKLIN ON PRAYER Benjamin Franklin, when a child, found the long graces used by his father before and after meals very tedious. One day, after the winter's provisions had been salted he said, "I think,…
IF ONLY If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumble about. Anonymous
IN ALIGNMENT Prayer is the chief agency and activity whereby men align themselves with God's purpose. Prayer does not consist in battering the walls of heaven for personal benefits or the success of our plans.…
MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His…
LIVINGSTONE'S PRAYER Dr. David Livingstone, who so totally gave his life in service to Christ on the mission field, had a favorite prayer which ought to be etched on the heart of every Christian: Send…
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Just 200 years ago, in 1787, prayer helped determine the future of our country in a significant way. The Constitutional Convention was on the verge of total failure over the issue of whether…
C. S. LEWIS ON MORNING PRAYER The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in…
THE INDIRECT EFFECTS OF PRAYER AND PILLS The British Press Association reported the following strange incident. It seems a British submarine lay disabled on the ocean floor. After two days, hope of raising her was…
SPIRITUAL FARMING Pray for a good harvest, but continue to hoe.
TO ENTER Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as king's palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. Daniel Webster
TROUBLE WITH PRAYER The reason we have trouble with prayer is that God often gives us bread when we pray for stones. Theodore Jennings
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is not well for man to pray cream, and live skim milk.
CRAVINGS/PRAYERS Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend them. Dag Hammerskjold
SIGN IN A HIGH SCHOOL RESTROOM -- notice -- In the event of an atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in this school will be temporarily suspended.
MARTIN LUTHER ON PRAYER To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
D. L. MOODY If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the gift you ask.
GE N. WILLIAM BOOTH Work as if everything depended upon your work and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer.
GERMAN PROVERB Pray as though no work would help, and work as though no prayer would help.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
