Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence King

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Fisher Stevens

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Henry Martyn

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

Henry Miller

Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

Cat Stevens

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Catharine Beecher

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...

George Eliot

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

George Eliot

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

James E. Faust

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

Jackie Evancho

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

James G. Frazer

The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

Iyanla Vanzant

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

Iyanla Vanzant

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Iyanla Vanzant

I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

Iyanla Vanzant

How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic formula of proper and distinct words. Oh no! We are talking about opening your heart and your mouth, saying what's on your mind, knowing that once you do, the answer will be revealed.

Iyanla Vanzant

I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?

Iyanla Vanzant

Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side, all things will come together for your good. Faith is knowing that there is a divine plan and purpose for everything in life

Iyanla Vanzant

When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

Jeremy Lin

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

Jeff Cohen

Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance.

Jeff Cooper

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

Georges Bernanos

Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

Georges Bernanos

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

George Whitefield

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

George Whitefield

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

George Sand

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Jim Gaffigan

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

Jean Houston

My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

Jim Burns

You are never more like Christ than when you love, pray for & serve your family.

Christopher Hitchens

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.