For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
~By Nick Rahall ~
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
~By Edward Albert ~
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.
~By Jo Bonner ~
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
~By Walter Martin ~
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
~By David Brainerd ~
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
~By Aaron Neville ~
I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
~By Pat Robertson ~
Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
~By Mother Maribel ~
There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
~By James Martineau ~
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
~By Andre Gide ~
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
~By William Wilberforce ~
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
~By Sam Levenson ~
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
~By George Carey ~
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
~By Charles Bent ~
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
~By Ivan Illich ~
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
~By James Hogg ~
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
~By Robert Brault ~
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
~By Anna Lee ~
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
~By Chiang Kai-shek ~
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
~By Loretta Young ~
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
~By Mary Antin ~
God knows, we don't want prayer.
~By Oliver North ~
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
~By Charles Lamb ~
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
~By James Green Somerville ~
I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
~By Voltaire ~
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
~By Charles Bent ~
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
~By William Feather ~
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
~By Ovid ~
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
~By Boyd Rice ~
I'm for prayer in schools.
~By Charles Evers ~
I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
~By Billy Graham ~
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
~By Daisy Ashford ~
Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass.
~By Richard Morris ~
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~By Mark Twain ~
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
~By Adam Clarke ~
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
~By Richard Holloway ~
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
~By Nick Rahall ~
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
~By George Santayana ~
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
~By Terry Prachett ~
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
~By George Muller ~
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
~By Dalai Lama ~
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
~By Rod Parsley ~
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
~By William Brewster ~
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
~By Martin Luther ~
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~By Billy Graham ~
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
~By Bill Shuster ~
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.
~By Hulk Hogan ~
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
~By Hippocrates ~
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
~By Peter Davison ~
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.
~By Nick Rahall ~
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
~By Henry Ellis ~
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
~By Karl Rahner ~
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~By George Herbert ~
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
~By Cokie Roberts ~
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
~By William James ~
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
~By Virgil ~
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
~By John Clayton ~
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
~By Mary Austin ~
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
~By William Ames ~
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
~By Rick Warren ~
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
~By Doris Lessing ~
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
~By John Bunyan ~
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
~By Julia Margaret Cameron ~
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
~By John Wooden ~
It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
~By Stockwell Day ~
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
~By Michael Shermer ~
Music is a form of prayer.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
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