Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lily Tomlin

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

Lily Tomlin

When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

Liam Neeson

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

Thomas Fuller

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

I used to be a drug addict, I used to be an alcoholic, but I took it up in prayer,

Edward McKendree Bounds

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

Richard Baxter

I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.

Richard Baxter

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Richard Baxter

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

Saint Augustine

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Tryon Edwards

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Tryon Edwards

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Truman Capote

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

Rick Yancey

Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

Rick Yancey

I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.

Rick Warren

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

Rick Warren

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

Rick Warren

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.

Rick Warren

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

Rick Warren

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

Rick Warren

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

Rick Warren

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

Paramahansa Yogananda

As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God

Ovid

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Ovid

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Perry Christie

And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us!

Meher Baba

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

Mary Oliver

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.