Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. Jacobs

I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.

A. J. McLean

Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer.

Adrian Rogers

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

Adrian Rogers

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

Adrian Rogers

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

Adrian Rogers

If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship.

Janet Jackson

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

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.

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.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry and prayer are very similar

Carol Ann Duffy

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

Carol Ann Duffy

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Charles R. Swindoll

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.

Charles Kimbrough

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.

Charles Colson

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

Bonnie Raitt

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

Barack Obama

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

Aristophanes

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

Brother Lawrence

One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.