God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.
you can't beat me and my prayers!
I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers.
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.
But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer. Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace.
We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.
All our blasphemies are only little prayers.
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.
The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.
Beside the Unity Breath and prayers, which are excellent to heal the Earth, I recommend truly connecting with Mother Earth and really talking to her. Let Her use you, come into you and use your body and your words to create whatever it is she wants to do.
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.
It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.