If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
– Phillips Brooks
Related Quotes:
- It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day. – Virginia Woolf
- I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith. – Evelyn Waugh
- I take thee… to be my awful wedded husband – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray. – Peter Kreeft
- Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night. – SA Tawks
- One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. – Criss Jami
- It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single -œDavid- standing with God, than a million -œGoliath’s- standing without Him. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid. – Laurell K Hamilton
- A Man can Live two Weeks without Food,go two days without Water,and two minutes without Air,and apparently,an entire lifetime without a BRAIN. – Walter Thomas Jr
- Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. – Karl Barth
- Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith. – Elizabeth George
- It is foolish to play with God, he is not a man, God’s laws do not change and His word is steadfast – Sunday Adelaja
- God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs. – Michael Crichton
- The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them. – Confucius
- The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined. – Blakney Francis
- I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity – Brian Kiteley
- But prayer isn’t asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right. – Max Lucado
- The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God. – David Platt
- The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die. – CJ Sansom
- Great man loves future and live in present as gift. Foolish one always stare and stuck on the past. – Bang Roy
- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears. – Deepak Chandra
- I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second. – MF Moonzajer
- The problem with living without the person you can’t live without is eventually realizing you can live without them. – Charlaine Harris
- She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn’t live without his heart. – Dana Marton
- If we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place. – Dan Phillips
- But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent. – Terry Brooks
- God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- my godis not as unreachable asthey’d like you to thinkmy god is beating inside us infinitely – Rupi Kaur
- The flowers are so beautiful, but God’s love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL flowers and all beautiful things combined! – Craig Compton
- God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him. – Thomas Goodwin
- As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin. – Jerry Bridges
- God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful. – Matt Chandler
- It’s better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. – Terry Brooks
- Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him. – Manoj Vaz
- A man after God’s own heart is…a man who yearns to please God,a man who desires to grow spiritually,a man who had a heart that obeys. – Jim George
- It was a prayer that he had never said before, because it was a prayer without words or pleas. – Paulo Coelho
- There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer. – Oswald J Smith
- I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without. – Martha Gellhorn
- A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear! – Bangambiki Habyarimana