Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

Rabindranath Tagore

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Rabindranath Tagore

Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

Madame de Stael

Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.

Madame de Stael

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Madame de Stael

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.

Madame de Stael

Prayer is the life of the soul.

Graydon Carter

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

John Dryden

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

John Masefield

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

John Locke

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

John Knox

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

John Knox

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.

John Knowles

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

Jody Watley

Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.

Joseph Hall

Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.

Joseph Hall

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

Katherine Anne Porter

I can pray better when I'm comfortable,

Karen Armstrong

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

Joyce Meyer

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

Joyce Meyer

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Joyce Meyer

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Joyce Meyer

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Joyce Meyer

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Joyce Meyer

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Joyce Meyer

Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.

Joyce Meyer

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Karen Joy Fowler

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

Leonard Bernstein

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

Leonard Cohen

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

L. Lionel Kendrick

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

John Keble

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

John Keats

All writing is a form of prayer.