Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. A. Torrey

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

R. A. Torrey

All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.

R. A. Torrey

When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.

R. A. Torrey

The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.

R. C. Sproul

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

R. C. Sproul

In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

R. C. Sproul

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

R. C. Sproul

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

R. C. Sproul

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

Pope Paul VI

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

R. A. Torrey

The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."

R. A. Torrey

We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

Mike Huckabee

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

Mike Huckabee

The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.

Mike Huckabee

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

Nhat Hanh

Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

Joe Meno

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

Jodi Picoult

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

Jodi Picoult

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

John Greenleaf Whittier

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Ken Blanchard

The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

Kinky Friedman

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

Kinky Friedman

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

Oprah Winfrey

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

Oprah Winfrey

I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.

Oprah Winfrey

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Oliver North

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Margaret Atwood

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?

Margaret Atwood

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

Margaret Atwood

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Margaret Thatcher

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

Lauren Oliver

I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

Lajos Kossuth

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.