Browsing Quotes With Tag: prayer (23)
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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! -
I’ve been driven to my knees by the overwhelming knowledge that I had to admit that I had nowhere else to go.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People may spurn your appeals, reject your message, and oppose your arguments, but they are helpless against your prayers.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I plead with you, my brothers and sisters, that if you have any doubt concerning any doctrine of this church, that you put it to the test. Try it. Live the principle. Get on your knees and pray about it, and God will bless you with a knowledge of the truth of this work.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We need to pray for the Holy Ghost to help us know that men who lead us hold [the] power [of the Lord].
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You are alone here, but part of your growth and experience is to learn how to find needed assistance.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!