Prayer

Healing Through Prayer
by eNotAlone.com
Nowadays in the United States millions of Americans offer prayers on a daily basis to heal themselves, their families, friends, colleagues and even people they briefly know, considering it as the most common complement to medicine, vitamins, herbs

We Never Pray Alone
Learning to Pray: How We Find Heaven on Earth
by Wayne Muller
Many who seek comfort and healing from prayer are unsure about how to pray. They feel awkward or uncomfortable, not knowing the 'right' way to pray. What should prayer feel like, and what is it supposed to accomplish?

I Wish I Could Believe: God, Show Me That You Exist
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems
by Anthony DeStefano
There have been thousands of books written about prayer and millions of sermons preached about it, yet people continue to wonder: Why doesn't God answer me when I cry out to him?

Lord, Teach Me
The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everything
by Joyce Meyer
Have you ever really considered what prayer is and why you pray? Do you understand just how your prayer impacts your life? Joyce unravels the mystery of talking with God by explaining and exploring the different types of prayer

Daily Prayer, Part 2
Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration
by Naomi Levy
Be with me, God. I feel so lost. I can't seem to escape the dark cloud that is hanging over me today. Help me, God. Give me strength to combat despair and fear. Show me how to put my pain into perspective.

Daily Prayer
Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration
by Naomi Levy
Daily prayer is the hardest form of prayer. It's natural to turn to God when things go wrong-when you are in pain or when you are frightened or depressed. It's easy to turn to God in times of joy-at a birth or a wedding, or on a holiday.

From Egypt to Rome, Part 2
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
The custom of offering spontaneous prayers to nature gods in the temples of Mayan, Aztec and Incan civilizations is well attested; here as in Egypt, religious iconography included colorful representations of the sun, and the practice of mummifying dead

From Egypt to Rome
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
'It is difficult to imagine,' wrote Mircea Eliade, 'how the human mind could function without the conviction that there is something irreducibly real in the world.' A prolific historian of religious ideas, Eliade demonstrated in more than fifty scholarly

Prayer as the Expression of Personal Religion
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
Considered independently of specific cultural forms, traditions, doctrines and rituals, religion in general may be described as the inner awareness of an ultimate Reality beyond the self and beyond the human.

Introduction, Part 3
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
AlthoughI write from the perspective of a Catholic, as one who affirms the faith of the apostles and tries each day to discern anew its meaning, I have written this book with all people of goodwill in mind, with whatever backgrounds, affirmations, doubts

Introduction, Part 1
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
Faith, I suggested in The Hidden Jesus, is primarily an attitude about reality - a refusal to admit that life has no meaning and that everything is doomed to extinction; faith then involves a willingness to wonder, to ask questions rather than simply

Timely and Timeless
The Rosary
by Garry Wills
For Catholics who grew up before the Second Vatican Council, saying the rosary, privately or with others, was a regular part of our lives. But in recent years the rosary has come to be stigmatized, precisely, as 'preconciliar' - as theologically

Confessions, Confusions, Part 2
The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives
by Sophy Burnham
When I was in trouble, I would slip into the dusky, trembling silence of an empty church to kneel in a pew, hands folded. I would pour out my heart to a God I did not believe in-or even like, if you consider the historical personage.

Confessions, Confusions
The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives
by Sophy Burnham
Praying was a duty, like wearing clean underclothes. 'Make sure you have on clean underwear in case you're in an accident,' she would say; and, while remembering the advise I wonder, Did she say the same thing to my brother, or was this admonition

Beginnings
The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives
by Sophy Burnham
If you were born without knowing anything at all about prayer, do you think that you would pray? I say yes. I think it's integral to the human heart; we cannot help ourselves. We think. We pray.

Reader's Guide
Adventures in Prayer: Praying Your Way to a God You Can Trust
by Rev. Sharon Connors
Key Ideas: 1. Prayer is our connection to the realm of the divine in a way that accesses the infinite resources of God. 2. There is not a right or wrong way to pray. Seeking God is prayer. Yet, because of the nature of God and the power of thought, ther

Why Should I Pray?
Adventures in Prayer: Praying Your Way to a God You Can Trust
by Rev. Sharon Connors
Prayer makes one master in the realm of creative ideas. -Charles Fillmore. Prayer helps us contact sources of inspiration and wisdom that transcend the rational, analytical side of the mind. Prayer provides a sense of hope and meaning - the certainty that

Heartfelt Sincerity and God's Reward
The Power of Prayer and Fasting: 21 Days That Can Change Your Life
by Marilyn Hickey
Jesus clearly taught His disciples that fasting was to be a very private matter between a person and the Lord. This does not mean that a group of people cannot agree together to fast and pray about a particular matter, or that a church cannot declare

Fasting and Prayer Are for the Church Today
The Power of Prayer and Fasting: 21 Days That Can Change Your Life
by Marilyn Hickey
Many believe prayer combined with fasting is an archaic discipline practiced only by early believers. Yet together, prayer and fasting form a powerful tool, says Bible teacher Marilyn Hickey, for helping us to overcome evil, achieve wholeness

A Prayer Each Day
A Treasury of Adoption Miracles : True Stories of God's Presence Today
by Karen Kingsbury
Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury continues her Miracles series with this collection of twelve true stories illustrating the presence of God in adoption. Brought Together by a Miracle. A Manhattan social worker receives a new case-a three-year-old girl