Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Pat Robertson

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

Pat Robertson

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

Mary Baker Eddy

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

Mary Baker Eddy

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

Mary Baker Eddy

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God ...

Mary Baker Eddy

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

Mary Baker Eddy

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

Mary Baker Eddy

All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

Marsha Norman

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

Nick Rahall

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.

Nick Rahall

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Mary McCarthy

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

Marvin Hier

To say a prayer is not enough. One has to believe that it's possible for that prayer to be heard.

Marvin J. Ashton

God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.

Mark Twain

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Mark Twain

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Nicholas Sparks

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

Nicholas Sparks

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Nicholas Sparks

He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.

Neal A. Maxwell

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

Muhammad Iqbal

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Mitch Daniels

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

Oscar Wilde

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

Madonna Ciccone

Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there.

Madonna Ciccone

I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish.

Lydia M. Child

Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

Luke Zeller

When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.

Lucretius

When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.

Louis Farrakhan

You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."