Quotes about Prayer

Only if you see yourself as zero and being full of passions can you see God.  If you can not see that you are nothing, then you cannot see God.  God lives only in the humble person.

+Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God have mercy on me the sinner+

Good morning, this is God.
I will be handling all of your problems today.
I will not need your help.
So have a miraculous day.

I may not be the one you asked for. I may not be the one you expect. I am however, the one who was sent.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen."

One day, through my prayers, an overwhelming amount of love started flowing into me, filling up the dark hole that threatened to consume me. I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

"Dear God," she prayed, "Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry ... have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well-dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream, all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."

If your life's story were written, would you read it?

Life is what you make it will your story have a peak, a conflict, suspence, action, a climax, and a conclusion? Or will you live your life keeping it safe and never taking any risks?  Ask yourself: if your life story were written, would you read it?

We are taught to take the bread
into our bodies
as proof of Jesus's body...

Suddenly, we are wed
and I am just as surprised as you
that marriage has become our bread...

Look. I don't know what
would help me believe
that we have become sacred...

If that was Easter
then the church was full
as we stood against the wall

praying for an empty pew.
If that was Easter
then I rose that morning

in love with you
though I rise every morning
from the water, more or less

in love with you.
If that was Easter
then you were asked

to be the Eucharistic minister.
If that was Easter
then you surprised me

by placing salmon on my tongue.
Then I surprised you
by swallowing it whole.

Amen, amen, amen.

I have not been to Jerusalem,
but Shirley talks about the bombs.
I have no god, but have seen the children praying
for it to stop. They pray to different gods.
The news is all old news again, repeated
like a bad habit...

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

This is a perfect moment.

It's a perfect moment for many reasons, but especially because you and I are waking up from our sleepwalking, thumb-sucking dumb-clucking collusion with the masters of illusion and destruction.

Thanks to them, from whom the painful blessings flow, we are waking up.

Their wars and tortures,
their crimes against nature,
extinctions of species
and brand new diseases.

Their spying and lying
in the name of the father,
sterilizing seeds and
trademarking water.

Molestations of God,
celebrations of shame,
stealing our dreams and
changing our names.

Their cunning commercials
and blood-sucking hustles,
their endless rehearsals
for the end of the world.

Thanks to them, from whom the awful teachings flow, we are waking up.

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Their painful blessings are cracking open more and more gashes in the shrunken and crippled mass hallucination that is mistakenly called "reality." And through the fractures, ripe eternity is flooding in; news of the soul's true home is pouring in; our allies from the other side of the veil are swarming in, inspiring us to become smarter and wilder and kinder and trickier.

We are waking up.

As heaven and earth come together, as the dreamtime and daytime merge, we register the shockingly exhilarating fact that we are in charge of creating a brand new world. Not in some distant time or faraway place, but right here and right now.

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As we stand on this brink, as we dance on this verge, we can't let the ruling fools of the dying world sustain their curses.... We can't afford to be consumed with our anger; we can't be obsessed and possessed by their danger. Our mysterious bodies crave delight and fertility. Our boisterous imaginations demand fresh tastes of infinity.

In the new world we're gestating, we need to be suffused with lusty compassion and ecstatic duty, ingenious love and insurrectionary beauty. We've got to be teeming with radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

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So I'm curious, my fellow creators. Since we are in charge of making a new world - not just breaking the old world - where do we begin?

...Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of gloom and doom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance to praise and create. No matter how upside-down it all may temporarily appear, we will have no fear, because we know this secret: Life is crazily in love with us - wildly and innocently in love with us....

Pronoia is our word of power, the spell we cast to shake ourselves awake again and again.... It's the brazen perception that all of creation is conspiring to shower us with blessings.

Pronoia means that even if we can't see and don't know, primal benefactors are plotting to emancipate us. The winds and tides are on our side, forever and ever, amen. The fire and rain are scheming to steal our pain. The sun and moon know our real names, and the animals pray for us while we're dreaming. Do you believe in guardian angels and divine helpers? Whether you do or not, they're always wangling to give you the gifts you don’t even realize you want....

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...Some people argue that life is strife and suffering is normal. Others swear we're born sinful and only heaven can provide us with the peace that passes understanding. But pronoia says that being alive on the rough green and brown earth is the highest honor and privilege. It's an invitation to work wonders and perform miracles that aren't possible in any nirvana, promised land, or afterlife.

I'm not exaggerating or indulging in poetic metaphor when I tell you that we are already living in paradise. Visualize it if you dare. The sweet stuff that quenches all of our longing is not far away in some other time and place. It's right here and right now.

Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning knew the truth: "Earth's crammed with heaven."

YOU'RE ALIVE BECAUSE OF LOVE. YOU'RE *MADE* OF LOVE.

The real purpose of prayer and meditation is to travel deeply enough within yourself to attract the presence of God.

We all start small. We pray and pick up what mitzvot we can practice. We respect each other and do right by others. We strive to learn what G-d wants from us through Torah study - and suddenly we are all part of the foundation on which the world is built.

Au loin
j'entendais prier
les sources de la terre.

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence...

Why do we need to pray?
Is God already not aware of of what's going on? Why must we bring something He already knows of, before Him? Is He not sovereign enough to handle things without us praying?

Sure God is truely sovereign. Infact, He's Almighty and All-knowing. He is the Creator of the whole universe.
But as sovereign as God is, He also respects our choices because, when He willed the earth to man, He also gave him the freedom of choice. He did not construct us as robots so He could manipulate us, but He made us to reason and act by ourselves, so that our relationship with Him would be a genuine one. This means that God does not impose His will on us.

For God to interfere in the afairs of man, He needs man's invitation. This is why He sometimes reveals to warn us concerning things yet to occur; why wouldn't He go ahead to take care of things without telling us?
He tells us so we could do something about it, so we could effect the necessary changes.  How? Through prayer.

As Christians, God has given us the power of attorney to use the Name of Jesus to rule and reign in this earth, and to cause every situation and circumstance to conform to His Word spoken concerning us and those around us. We do this by using that authority to declare words of power into the situation we want to change, because Christ has made us kings and priests unto God, and where the word of a king is, there is power.
And as priests, we minister to God on behalf of the world. He made us priests so through us He can touch the world. He also gave us His Holy Spirit to sanctify our words of prayer so they would be acceptable unto Him.
This is why it is very vital for us as Christians not to neglect our role of intercession on behalf of others. Sometimes as the Holy Spirit of God inspires us in our prayers, we get to pray for people and situations we don't even know of. This is why some people experience the divine intervention of God in their situations without they necessarily praying. 
The otherwise sometimes happens due to someone's disobedience to God's prompt to pray- we are the salt of the earth.
  

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?

The love of God, love of Guru, love of mantra-all of these are so powerful that they can uproot impressions that have been with you for thousands and thousands of births. This is the saving grace of the name of God: Rama, Krishna, Govinda, Vasudeva, and Hari. Sing these names over and over.

From the time you touch something you want to possess it. Well let's touch God. In our minds visualize him and touch him. Go deep within and give him all of your feelings of love. Desire to touch him only and he will come. He will come. This is what he's waiting for: to be touched by your love.

In the exact form, strength, fervour, love and devotion with which you approach God, so much so he gives back to you.
 

The activating power of the mantra is such that it enlightens by transforming the inner darkness at the sub-atomic level. As such, the inhibiting, negative samskaras, masked by ignorance and held within as limiting characteristics, are released to the light of the individual one atom at a time.

Your every action is a prayer.

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted....
As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.

Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer

Pray for tranquility of spirit and cultivate patience.

Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling - is creative.

our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken

the sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard