Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duke Ellington

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Dorothy Day

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Dorothy Day

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?

Dorothy Day

If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

Dorothy Day

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

Dorothy Day

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travelers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry. My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart that I will see you all, and live with you all, in His love.

Dora Russell

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Personal prayer, it seems to me, is one of the simplest necessities of life, as basic to the individual as sunshine, food and water-and at times, of course, more so. By prayer I mean an effort to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that our prayers are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human beings. A thousand experiences have convinced me beyond room of doubt that prayer multiplies the strength of the individual and brings within the scope of his capabilities almost any conceivable objective.

Dalai Lama

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

Dalai Lama

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

Dalai Lama

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

Dalai Lama

Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

Doc Hastings

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.

Dodie Smith

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Dolly Parton

Every day I pray about all I do.

Dolly Parton

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

Desmond Tutu

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Dave Willis

If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?

David A. Bednar

Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

David A. Bednar

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

David Wilkerson

I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

David Wilkerson

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.

David Wilkerson

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.

David Wilkerson

Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!

David Wilkerson

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.

David O. McKay

An essential virtue is humility. ... The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step

David O. McKay

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

David Mamet

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

Daisy Ashford

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

Daisaku Ikeda

Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

Daisaku Ikeda

Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.

Cokie Roberts

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Dante Alighieri

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.