Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are just very thankful they're all safe. And our thoughts and prayers are with those who have no place to go.

William Shakespeare

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

William Shakespeare

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

The prayers worked, very simply. But we need more prayers. He's not out of it yet.

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.

Samuel Butler

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

William Wilberforce

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

William Wilberforce

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

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.

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.

Isiah Thomas

Our prayers and thoughts are with him. We will do everything that we're supposed to do and beyond.

J. J. Johnson

Our prayer has been from day one that other towns can see that we can do this.

Kenny Perry

I say a prayer for him every night.

David James

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

William Temple

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

William Temple

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.

I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.

C. S. Lewis

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

C. S. Lewis

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

C. S. Lewis

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

C. S. Lewis

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

C. S. Lewis

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.