Whatever you ask in
Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Eckhart Tolle
Supplication
Prayer is, for me,
Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it’s a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it’s a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship. Francis Collins
I’m gonna abandon my
I’m gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods. David Lee Roth
This is the path
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on … Read more
Instead of exhorting you
Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it. Cotton Mather
Prayer is the forerunner
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication. Charles Spurgeon
There should be a
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise. Charles Spurgeon
The universe is the
The universe is the way it is. It’s not going to be changed by supplications. Buzz Aldrin
The great thing in
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love. Andrew Murray
Dantes passed through all
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor’s belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment … Read more