What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning. - Douglas Coupland For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether? - Kahlil Gibran

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love. - Paulo Coelho He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any favors or for any different treatment than all the men were receiving. - Ernest Hemingway He wanted three miracles tonight. It was the prayer of a devil. How dare he even ask? But Beckett had no shame. The thought of Blake walking around with a trail of trained killers behind him stopped his heart. - Debra Anastasia I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous casethe total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free. - R M Ballantyne Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with...

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention. - Rick Allen Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "i'm going to say a prayer for you." And although i wanted to mock her and explain i didn't believe in anything or anyone, i realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I Let her. - Melina Marchetta Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face. - Clive Barker When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world. - Francesca Lia Block Never go in, miss. Never say a prayer at its door. If you are angry, do not seek revenge by the Laughing Maiden stone, or at the threshold of the Tombs. Th...

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. - Matthew Kelly The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. - Jodi Picoult Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. - Jodi Picoult Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift. - Elizabeth Gilbert For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him ...

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. - Maya Angelou Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well). - Meg Cabot Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. - Anne Sexton Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but ...

I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail. - Edward Abbey Your tears are my prayers. - Elizabeth Gilbert I thing that god is always listening to all my prayers.and i have so many dreams in my life.thats why Im always praying thats someday Im going to achieve all my dreams. - Oprah Winfrey I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. - Susan B Anthony My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand. - Amelia Atwater Rhodes Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lend them west." "We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that yo...

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. - Thomas S Monson The Peace Panda Says: Without The Heartfelt Prayer Of Love And Compassion...Even The Greatest Of Temples, Mosques, Synagogues and Cathedrals Of Humanity Are Spiritually Dead. What is Humanity Without It's Spirit? - Timothy Pina

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness. - Spencer W Kimball Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. - Nat Turner

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. - Mary Austin If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge. - Philip Yancey

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.. - Aberjhani He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says. - Diana Abu Jaber A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. - Paulo Coelho The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. - Jodi Picoult Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention. - Rick Allen He kept his head down in what seemed to be a prayer. He counts. You've smiled at him four hundred and forty-six times as of a few minu...

I do believe in the power of prayer. - Geraldine Ferraro I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. - Harvey Fierstein