Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Venkaiah Naidu

We are shocked by the news. We are praying for his speedy recovery.

Billy Graham

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Billy Graham

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.

Billy Graham

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.

Billy Graham

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

Billy Graham

Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.

Billy Graham

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

Billy Graham

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

Billy Graham

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Billy Graham

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

Billy Graham

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

Billy Graham

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

Billy Graham

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

Billy Graham

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

Billy Graham

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

Billy Graham

Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

Billy Graham

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Billy Graham

My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

Billy Graham

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

Billy Graham

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

William Wilberforce

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.