Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Iyanla Vanzant

I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

Iyanla Vanzant

How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic formula of proper and distinct words. Oh no! We are talking about opening your heart and your mouth, saying what's on your mind, knowing that once you do, the answer will be revealed.

Iyanla Vanzant

I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?

Iyanla Vanzant

Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side, all things will come together for your good. Faith is knowing that there is a divine plan and purpose for everything in life

Iyanla Vanzant

When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

Jeremy Lin

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

Jeff Cohen

Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance.

Jeff Cooper

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

Georges Bernanos

Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

Georges Bernanos

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

George Whitefield

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

George Whitefield

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

George Sand

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Jim Gaffigan

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

Jean Houston

My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

Christopher Hitchens

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

Christopher Hitchens

The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.

Gary Zukav

It is impossible to have a prayer without power.

Gary Busey

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

Fulton J. Sheen

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

Fulton J. Sheen

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

Fulton J. Sheen

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

Fulton J. Sheen

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

Fulton J. Sheen

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Fulton J. Sheen

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

Fulton J. Sheen

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Francois Rabelais

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

George Carey

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

Christopher Hitchens

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Christine O'Donnell

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, and now we're having weekly shootings practically. We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

George W. Romney

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.