Opportunities Today : May 2007 Issue

God, Prayer and Love!

 

 

A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most complete prayer
– Anonymous

Live with men as if God saw you, and talk to God as if men were listening.
– Athenodorus

Prayer does not use any artificial energy, it doesn't burn fossil fuel, it doesn't pollute.
– Margaret Mead

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion
– John Burroughs

God is not indifferent to your needs. You have a thousand prayers but God has one
– Anne Sexton

He, prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prayer is a conversation with God
– Anonymous

God creates. People rearrange
– Joseph Casey

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray
– Aesop

Prayer is a conversation with God. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
– Socrates

The best way to know God is to love many things
– Vincent Van Gogh

Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment.
– Maria Collins

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
– William Shakespeare

The fewer the words, the better the prayer
– Martin Luther

God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon, and sun, how they move in silence.
– Mother Teresa

In the beginning God…… in the end God
– Desond Tutes

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble
– Philipp Schwarzert Melanchthon

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself
– George Herbert

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have
– Hyman Judah Schartel

Music is in all hearts and if we listen carefully, we can hear each other's song
– Thomas a Kempis

True humility is not an object, groveling, self-despising spirit. It is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us
– Tryon Edwards

O Lord who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
– William Shakespeare

Follow your bliss
– Joseph Lampbell

A man consists of the faith that is in him whatever his faith is he is
– The Bhagavad Gita

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road
– Isak Dicsen

When you touch a fellow human being with love, you are doing God’s work..
– Emmanuel

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
– Henry David Thoreau

We should give God the same place in our hearts that he holds in the universe
– Cicero

God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere
– Empedocles

We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things
– Henry War Bucher

The world is God's episthe to mankind His thoughts are flashing upon us from every direction.
– Plato

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays
– Soren Kierkegaard

We have our brush and colours paint Paradise and in we go
– Nikos Kazantzake

The change of one simple behaviour can effect others behaviours and thus change many things
– Jean Baer

God enters by a private door into every individual
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need the faith to go a path untrod, the power to be alone and vote with God
– Edward Kham

Never be afraid of giving up your best, and God will give you his better
– James Hinton

It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason.
– Blaise Pascal

It is only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God
– Henry David Thoreau