When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!
Pray to God, but row towards shore.
We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.
I pray as much as possible.
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.
TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.
To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. . . . Try science.
We cannot pray and remain the same.
The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.
When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.