Pastoral Resources

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

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.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.