God knows, we don't want prayer.
~By Oliver North ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
~By Peter Davison ~
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
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 ~
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
~By Margaret Mead ~
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
~By Arthur Wellesley ~
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
~By William Wilberforce ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
~By John Buchan ~
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
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 ~
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
~By Mark Hopkins ~
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
~By Edith Stein ~
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Prayer is mans greatest power!
~By W. Clement Stone ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
~By Philip Henry ~
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
~By George MacDonald ~
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
~By Matthew Henry ~
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
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 ~
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
~By George C. Wallace ~
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
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 ~
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
~By Cokie Roberts ~
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
~By Artur Davis ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
~By Edith Stein ~
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 do believe in the power of prayer.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
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 ~
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
~By Mary Austin ~
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
~By Doris Lessing ~
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
~By Henry Ellis ~
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
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 ~
My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
~By Toby Keith ~
I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.
~By Martha Reeves ~
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 ~
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
~By Josephine Baker ~
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 ~
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
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 ~
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 ~
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
~By Will Rogers ~
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 ~
I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
~By Harold E. Hughes ~
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 ~
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
~By Ivan Illich ~
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~By George Herbert ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
~By John Hawley ~
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
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