Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
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 ~
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
~By Michael Shermer ~
And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.
~By Anne Heche ~
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
~By Aesop ~
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 ~
I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.
~By Henry Wilson ~
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
~By William Feather ~
I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
~By Sarah Palin ~
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
~By William Gurnall ~
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
~By Al Sharpton ~
I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.
~By Pat Robertson ~
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
~By Paul Laurence Dunbar ~
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 ~
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
~By Johannes Tauler ~
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
~By Josephine Baker ~
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 ~
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
~By Ovid ~
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.
~By Nick Rahall ~
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
~By Mary Austin ~
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
~By William James ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
~By Henri Matisse ~
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
~By Maria W. Chapman ~
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
~By William Wilberforce ~
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
~By Cokie Roberts ~
We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
~By William Brewster ~
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
~By Horatio Alger ~
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
~By Epicurus ~
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
~By Edith Stein ~
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 ~
I'm for prayer in schools.
~By Charles Evers ~
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 ~
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
~By John Buchan ~
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 ~
Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
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 first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
~By Francis W. Newman ~
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
~By James Martineau ~
I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~By Garth Brooks ~
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
~By William Proxmire ~
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
~By Billy Graham ~
There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
~By John Selden ~
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 ~
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
~By Saint Teresa ~
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
~By Daisy Ashford ~
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
~By Mark Hopkins ~
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 ~
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 ~
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
~By Robert Brault ~
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 ~
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
~By Saint Augustine ~
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
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 ~
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 ~
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
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