Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

The groves were God's first temples.

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.

It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.