Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight L. Moody

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

Dwight L. Moody

Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Dwight L. Moody

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

Dwight L. Moody

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Dwight L. Moody

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

Dwight L. Moody

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

Dwight L. Moody

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

Dwight L. Moody

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Dwight L. Moody

Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.

Dwight L. Moody

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Duke of Wellington

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Duke Ellington

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Dorothy Day

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Dorothy Day

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?

Dorothy Day

If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

Dorothy Day

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

Dorothy Day

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travelers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry. My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart that I will see you all, and live with you all, in His love.

Dora Russell

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Personal prayer, it seems to me, is one of the simplest necessities of life, as basic to the individual as sunshine, food and water-and at times, of course, more so. By prayer I mean an effort to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that our prayers are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human beings. A thousand experiences have convinced me beyond room of doubt that prayer multiplies the strength of the individual and brings within the scope of his capabilities almost any conceivable objective.

Dalai Lama

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

Dalai Lama

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

Dalai Lama

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

Dalai Lama

Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

Doc Hastings

Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.

Dodie Smith

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Desmond Tutu

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Dave Willis

If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?

David A. Bednar

Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

David Wilkerson

I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

David Wilkerson

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

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.