As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
~By Cokie Roberts ~
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~By Mark Twain ~
My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
~By Toby Keith ~
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
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 ~
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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 prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
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 ~
God hears a mother's prayer.
~By Victoria Gotti ~
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
~By Matthew Henry ~
I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
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 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 ~
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
~By Anna Lee ~
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
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 ~
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
~By Zack Wamp ~
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
~By Virgil ~
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 ~
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 simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
~By Billy Graham ~
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
~By Doris Lessing ~
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
~By Billy Graham ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.
~By Brian McBride ~
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 ~
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
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 opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
~By John Buchan ~
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 ~
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
~By George Santayana ~
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'
~By Thomas Kinkade ~
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
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 ~
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. ~
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 ~
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 ~
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
~By George Carey ~
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
~By Arthur Wellesley ~
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
~By George Meredith ~
Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
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 ~
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
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 ~
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 ~
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
~By Franz Schubert ~
To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.
~By Hulk Hogan ~
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 ~
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
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 ~
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
~By Roald Dahl ~
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
~By Martin Luther ~
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 ~
I'm for prayer in schools.
~By Charles Evers ~
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 ~
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
~By Zell Miller ~
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
~By Josh McDowell ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
~By Knute Rockne ~
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
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 ~
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
~By Adam Clarke ~
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 ~
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