We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
~By George Eliot ~
Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
~By Pat Robertson ~
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
~By Martin Luther ~
Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
~By Zell Miller ~
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
~By W. H. Auden ~
You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
~By Charles Simeon ~
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
~By Whitley Strieber ~
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
~By Dean Inge ~
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
~By Frank R. Wolf ~
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 ~
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
~By Franz Kafka ~
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.
~By Jane Elliot ~
And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.
~By Warren Jeffs ~
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.
~By John Edward ~
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 Joseph Ratzinger ~
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
~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 sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
~By Toby Keith ~
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
~By Saint Teresa ~
It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.
~By Terry McMillan ~
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 prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
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 ~
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
~By William Gurnall ~
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 ~
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
~By Fisher Stevens ~
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 ~
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~By Mark Twain ~
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
~By Peter Davison ~
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.
~By Robert McAfee Brown ~
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
~By Josephine Baker ~
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
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 ~
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
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 ~
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
~By William James ~
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
~By William Feather ~
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
~By George C. Wallace ~
I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
~By Mary Austin ~
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
~By Billy Graham ~
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
~By Ovid ~
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
~By Bob Marley ~
Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
~By Charles Bent ~
Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
~By Rick Allen ~
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 ~
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
~By Edward Albert ~
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
~By Nat Turner ~
We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
~By William Brewster ~
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 ~
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
~By Matthew Henry ~
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
~By Richard Cecil ~
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
~By Alan Cohen ~
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 ~
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
~By Martin Luther ~
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
~By Robert Brault ~
Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
~By Frederic William Farrar ~
Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.
~By Jo Bonner ~
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
~By Origen ~
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
~By Martin Luther ~
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
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 ~
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
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 Madame de Stael ~
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