Yesterday, a special day of fasting
and prayer, I looked for short quotes …
and wanted to share three of my
favorites:
“Pray
Always”
Elder David A. Bednar, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
"For I, the Lord God, created
all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally
upon the face of the earth” (Moses
3:4–5).
“We learn from these verses that the
spiritual creation preceded the temporal creation. In a similar way, meaningful morning prayer is
an important element in the spiritual creation of each day—and precedes the
temporal creation or the actual execution of the day. Just as the temporal creation was linked to
and a continuation of the spiritual creation, so meaningful morning and evening
prayers are linked to and are a continuation of each other.”
– General Conference, October 2008
"Make [group] prayers brief"
"We
ought to worship Him with our hearts and not with these long, flowery
sentences. ... We can pray by ourselves and we can take as
long time as we wish ..."
"When
others are kneeling down with us, we ought in our prayers to be direct and
brief, and not pray about everything there is on the earth and imagine that we
must mention everything in detail or the Lord won't know about it. He does know ... If we pay attention to the Lord's prayer that He taught His disciples, we will see the
beauty of that, how simple it was and direct; it contained no superfluous words
..." (See St. Matthew 6:9-13) –
Gospel Truth Volume 2
Discourses and
Writings of President George Q. Cannon, compiled
by Jerreld L. Newquist, ©1974 Deseret Book Company, p.172
"Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks ..."
– 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18
I
know from experience, and pray that we will all find true happiness through sincere
prayer to our Father in Heaven.
Click to enlarge – stranger looks like he's praying. Press Escape.
