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 ~
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
~By John Bunyan ~
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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
~By Martin Luther ~
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 ~
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
~By Bob Marley ~
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
~By Al Sharpton ~
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 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 ~
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
~By Peter Davison ~
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 ~
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
~By Gerald Vann ~
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
~By George C. Wallace ~
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
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 ~
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
~By Virgil ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
~By Josephine Baker ~
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
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 ~
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
~By Paul Laurence Dunbar ~
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
~By George Santayana ~
God knows, we don't want prayer.
~By Oliver North ~
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
~By Mark Hopkins ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.
~By Catherine O'Hara ~
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
Prayer is mans greatest power!
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~By George Herbert ~
I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
~By Tina Turner ~
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. ~
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
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 ~
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 ~
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
~By Alexander Cockburn ~
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 ~
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
~By Anna Lee ~
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
~By Cokie Roberts ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
~By Alex Grey ~
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 ~
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 as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
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 ~
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
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 ~
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
~By Horatio Alger ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
~By David Wilkerson ~
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
~By Ivan Illich ~
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
~By James Martineau ~
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 ~
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
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 ~
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
~By Roy Orbison ~
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 believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.
~By Henry Wilson ~
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
~By Billy Graham ~
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 ~
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
~By Henry Ellis ~
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
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