Quotations to stir heart and mind. Praying for forgiveness is a vivid reminder that God frees us from debilitating guilt and forgets our past. No sin is written with indelible ink. He that cannot ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention ...

To ask God to forgive sins is to be ready to accept the mercy of Christ. About how Jesus supports us in moments of despair, where it is better to pray and which prayer is more suitable for the ...

This is French artist James Tissot’s depiction of Jesus teaching his disciples the Lord’s Prayer. Tissot lived from 1836-1902. (Courtesy Photo) The Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 emphasizes God’s ...

Q My husband died in April of this year after a three-year battle with cancer. At the wake, the priest asked us to pray for his soul. Other than, "May he rest in peace," what prayers are meaningful? C ...

We are told that one should pray for: believers, community, compassion, courage, deliverance, an end to poverty, endurance, our enemies, everyone, financial stability ...

Nicole Sotelo often says that her most recent publication, Pray Your Way Through Forgiveness: Reflections, Prayers and Actions for Healing was "a labor of love — with an emphasis on labor." The ...

To the Christian observer, it might seem like a pretty strange quirk of Judaism that only once a year do Jews focus on forgiveness. Normative Christianity sees the human soul as tainted by sin, sin as ...

(RNS) December 1955, Holt Street Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala. That day, a courageous community activist, Rosa Parks, had been forced off a city bus and jailed. That night, a hurt, angry crowd of ...

To many Protestants, the phrasing of the Lord’s Prayer in the King James Version is almost as sacred as if God himself had composed its stately English prose. Last week, at its sixth General Synod in ...