Quotes about prayer
prayer pain passion
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain. Robert Green Ingersoll
prayer deeds good-deeds
A good deed is the best prayer.
prayer eye men
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
prayer reading winter
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.
prayer labor-day answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
prayer noble answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
prayer war soldier
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling
prayer giving people
If you just breathe, and go slower, you will have enough energy. It's really important because there are people who wait in line, and your work has changed their lives. You will need to listen to them because they are also going to feed you and give you confirmation of the prayer you asked before you spoke. Sandra Cisneros
prayer heart tough
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. Ruth Graham
prayer praying
We cannot pray and remain the same.
prayer men married
God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times!
prayer school america
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. Ronald Reagan
prayer men lucky
I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good. Rodney Atkins
prayer philosophical thinking
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. Virgil
prayer night sky
If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be. Willa Cather
prayer people good-people
The prayers of all good people are good.
prayer people said
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
prayer broken soul
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
prayer practice doubt
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society. Warren E. Burger
prayer men views
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.
prayer house problem
There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals. Vladimir Zhirinovsky
prayer believe sky
We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules. Wayne Dyer
prayer law desire
Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers. Walter Cronkite
prayer adventure hands
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
prayer fall broken
I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved. Samuel Butler
prayer mind energy
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
prayer men mind
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.
prayer poetry paradigm
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer. Samuel Beckett
prayer past taught-us
When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power. Rudolf Steiner
prayer real character
I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together. Wesley Snipes
prayer school squares
Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools."This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.
prayer unique class
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. W. H. Auden
prayer attention definitions
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.