Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Barker

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

Dan Barker

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

Dan Barker

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

Dan Barker

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

Dan Barker

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

B. C. Forbes

If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?

Ashleigh Brilliant

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

Apollonius of Tyana

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!

Bayard Taylor

Labor, you know, is prayer.

Bayard Taylor

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Austin Phelps

It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

Austin Phelps

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

Austin Phelps

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Ashley Judd

I do think prayer is powerful and it is not to be diminished. Some of us who are struggling to put food on the table and are wondering where the next paycheck is coming from or have dangerous health situations and they don't have access to appropriate care do pray - do pray for yourselves and for others.

Bernie Siegel

If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence. I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me. Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.

Bernie Siegel

When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems. You will notice at times that the new life isn't what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn't how I define prayer. I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.

She would have been in here praying with me.

Bruce Willis

Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively.

Bruce Willis

To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men?

Brandon Sanderson

You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?" "I believe in them all." Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each other?" Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.

Archibald Alexander

It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.

Ben Marcus

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

Barbara Johnson

A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Arthur Middleton

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

Arthur Middleton

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.

Charles Bukowski

in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.

Aristotle

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Ben Jonson

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.