Browsing Quotes With Tag: prayer (28)
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Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.
Speaker: George R. R. MartinSource: a Storm of SwordsPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
By ending a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, the prayer we offer should be the prayer that He would have prayed if he were saying the prayer himself.
Speaker: paraphrased from Alonzo GaskillSource: Education Week 2013Posted: 29 Aug 2013 at 4:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Sometimes you may struggle with a problem and not get an answer. What could be wrong? It may be that you are not doing anything wrong. It may be that you have not done the right things long enough. Remember, you cannot force spiritual things. Sometimes we are confused simply because we won’t take no for an answer. …
“Put difficult questions in the back of your minds and go about your lives. Ponder and pray quietly and persistently about them.
“The answer may not come as a lightning bolt. It may come as a little inspiration here and a little there, ‘line upon line, precept upon precept’ (D&C 98:12).
“Some answers will come from reading the scriptures, some from hearing speakers. And, occasionally, when it is important, some will come by very direct and powerful inspiration. The promptings will be clear and unmistakable”.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1979, 29–30; or Ensign, Nov. 1979, 21Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle at times, and to act. Seldom does the whole answer to a decisively important matter or complex problem come all at once. More often, it comes a piece at a time, without the end in sight”.
Speaker: Elder Richard G. ScottSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1989, 40; or Ensign, Nov. 1989, 32Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The overwhelming majesty of the universe suggested a major communication problem God has with man. Our limited, finite minds could not contain many answers even if God chose to give them to us… Living by faith, then, is not simply a test, but a necessity—until we are ready to receive more divine data… When we often can’t frame the right question, and could not contain the answer if it were given, silence must be God’s only response at times.”
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is in Them…, p. 29Posted: 09 Feb 2013 at 9:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So often we feel, implicitly, that we are doing God a favor if we do his work, that we are helping him along when, in fact, our performance properly undertaken is for the welfare of our soul, not his! It is our happiness and our growth he seeks! How wonderful it could be to pray that what we do would be mindstretching and soul-expanding. Such genuine, prayerful forethought could also reduce the less-than-necessary tasks we do that are trivial and could lessen the number of right things we do for the wrong reasons.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is Unto ThemPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 1:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Speaker: Phillips BrooksPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If those for whom we pray do not feel the effects of our prayer, perhaps we need more sincere prayers.
Speaker: GaySource: Adapted from Elder Bednar's conference talkPosted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
On those occasions when you don’t feel like praying, you should get on your knees and pray until you feel like praying.
Speaker: Brigham YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every night I turn all my troubles over to God… He’ll be up all night anyway.
Speaker: Jim HumphreyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Prayer keeps a man from sin, and sin keeps a man from prayer.
Speaker: Brigham YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Pray as if everything depended on God, and then work as if everything depended on you.
Speaker: Francis Cardinal SpellmanPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words, than words without heart.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Speaker: George MeredithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A hymn is a prayer, and prayers get answered.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thoughts, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t do less than your best when people are praying for you.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
With concerted effort, with recognition of the duty that falls upon each of us,… and with sincere prayer to the Lord for help, we could double that number [of baptisms].
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you learn to rely on the Lord while you are missionaries, it will be an aid and a comfort to you for the rest of your lives.
Speaker: Stephen B. OvesonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!