Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

Henry Ward Beecher

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Henry James

Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.

John Knowles

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

Joe Eszterhas

I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think the jury is out, still out. I haven't made any final decisions on him, but I've been surprised at times. I agree with him about one thing absolutely-George W. Bush said recently that he believed in prayer and exercise. So do I.

Joe Eszterhas

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

Jim Morrison

You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.

Eric Liddell

Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and by allowing His Spirit to dwell in our hearts and control our actions and emotions. Learn in the days of ease and comfort, to think in terms of the prayer that follows, so that when the days of hardship come you will be fully prepared and equipped to meet them.

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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

Efraim Zuroff

As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth,

Prayer is not complicated, but we make it that way,

Our thoughts and prayers go out to them, ... It's a sad situation for everybody.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Coach,

Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. This is a sad day for the Tiger-Cats family.

Our thoughts and prayers are with her family.

This is a tragic situation. I don't know all the details. Our prayers are with the family.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

Gordon Brown

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

Gordon B. Hinckley

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #‎ prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #‎ Heaven .

Gordon B. Hinckley

If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will be a better student, a better worker in your chosen vocation. Love is of the essence of this missionary work. Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.

Gordon B. Hinckley

This is my prayer for all of us—'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. . . . Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. . . . Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.