Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our thoughts and prayers go out to them, ... It's a sad situation for everybody.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Coach,

Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. This is a sad day for the Tiger-Cats family.

Our thoughts and prayers are with her family.

Don't tell me that. We're going to have to pray for a very warm winter.

This is a tragic situation. I don't know all the details. Our prayers are with the family.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

Gordon Brown

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

Gordon B. Hinckley

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #‎ prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #‎ Heaven .

Gordon B. Hinckley

If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will be a better student, a better worker in your chosen vocation. Love is of the essence of this missionary work. Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.

Gordon B. Hinckley

This is my prayer for all of us—'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. . . . Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. . . . Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

Geraldine Brooks

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

Georgette Heyer

Do you recall Fred Merriville?” She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?” “The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!

Herman Melville

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

Herman Melville

Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.

Herman Melville

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

Henry David Thoreau

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

Jerry Falwell

God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.

Jerry Falwell

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

Jerry Falwell

I do not believe that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew

Eugene H. Peterson

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

Eugene H. Peterson

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

Eugene H. Peterson

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

Etty Hillesum

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Ernest Holmes

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

Ernest Holmes

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.