Repeat to yourself every day and as often as you can: ‘O Lord, have mercy on all those who will appear before You today.’ For every hour, every second, thousands of men leave this world and their souls appear before the Lord, and no one knows how many of them leave this earth in isolation, sadness, and anguish, with no one to take pity on them or even care whether they live or die. And so your prayer for such a man will rise to the Lord from the other end of the earth, although he may never have heard of you or you of him. But his soul, as it stands trembling before the Lord, will be cheered and gladdened to learn that there is someone on earth who loves him. And the Lord’s mercy will be even greater to both of you, for, however great your pity for the man, God’s pity will be much greater, for He is infinitely more merciful and more loving than you are.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: prayer
I'll pray for you."
"That's very kind of you."
"I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.
Tags: humor religion prayer rosary
To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.
Ilyas KassamTags: laughter humour prayer comedy pray divine-comedy
Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: goals persistence dreams patience endurance prayer fortitude resolve desire resolution steadfastness willpower richelle perserverance richelle-goodrich
Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer: the soul's colloquy with the Creator, mortal man's dialogue with the Deity: with magical incantation and the ritual of the 'spell.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: religion prayer incantations jabez
We touch the last reality directly in prayer.
P.T. ForsythTags: prayer
I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest common denominator, be it in syncretizing saints with old, half-forgotten pagan godlings, or in preferring the nasal whine and the revivalist shoutin' to solid sense and learning, regarding intellect as positively inimical to the workings of the Holy Ghost. But it is in American religious life, especially Protestant American religious life, that things bottom out completely.
Markham Shaw PyleTags: religion prayer protestant pagan
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: prayer 9-11 new-york bombay hannah ground-zero charminar church-of-south-india
I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
Wess StaffordWilliam looked up... through his tears... past the catwalk and lights... past the sky... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?
Jake Vander-ArkTags: theater prayer obsession stage silent-god
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