Purity is the fruit of prayer.
I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
I think it would be a welcome reminder to every American that we can pray a good deal more at home. We can attend our churches with a good deal more fidelity.
Commenting on the Supreme Court's ban on public school prayer:
Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.
Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.
Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.
I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.
It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.
'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.' I'm not saying I don't have problems or that I don't worry, but I try not to be stressed. I manage my anxiety through prayer. Worry shows up on your face, and I don't want that!
I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
A man can preach no better than he prays.
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.