Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses and bad habits. He loves you today with a full understanding of your struggles. He is aware that you reach up to Him in heartfelt and hopeful prayer. He knows of the times you have held onto the fading light and believed-even in the midst of growing darkness. He knows of your sufferings. He knows of your remorse for the times you have fallen short or failed. And still He loves you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

Dennis Kucinich

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

Deepak Chopra

Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer.

Abraham Lincoln

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

Alexis Carrel

Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

Alexis Carrel

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

Alexis Carrel

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.

Alexis Carrel

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.

Alexis Carrel

Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

Alexis Carrel

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace...

Alexandre Dumas

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Alexandre Dumas

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

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.

Ayn Rand

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Ben Gibbard

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

Carl Sandburg

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

C. S. Lewis

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

C. S. Lewis

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

C. S. Lewis

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

C. S. Lewis

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

C. S. Lewis

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

C. S. Lewis

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

C. S. Lewis

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Bryant H. McGill

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Obviously, our prayers are with (Robinson) regardless of all the other issues.

From worship to prayer there is only one small step that will always be used by hierarchy.

I'd just like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and I think that's it.