Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Wesley

To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

William Shakespeare

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

Billy Sunday

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Beryl Bainbridge

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

Benjamin Harrison

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Benjamin Spock

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

Bertrand Russell

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Catherynne M. Valente

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

Catherynne M. Valente

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

Billy Sunday

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

Billy Sunday

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

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.

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.

I really say a prayer of thanks and that she was able to go.

I don't know how we pulled that one out. We have to say our prayers of thanks on that one.

Jack Kornfield

The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.