Junot Diaz Quotes

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

Pray in faith.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

Throughout my life, my prayers have actively sustained me - held me up, carried me through.

Through prayers I get the strength to face all the difficulties.

I do think prayer is powerful and it is not to be diminished. Some of us who are struggling to put food on the table and are wondering where the next paycheck is coming from or have dangerous health situations and they don't have access to appropriate care do pray - do pray for yourselves and for others.

Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.

Dear Jesus, do something.

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

Through the many struggles in my life, my faith is sometimes the only thing I have to hold onto. God was my only friend.

When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.