Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Hippocrates

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

Hippocrates

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Herbert Hoover

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

Herbert Hoover

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

Herbert Hoover

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Evelyn Underhill

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

Evelyn Underhill

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

Evelyn Underhill

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

Evelyn Underhill

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

Evelyn Underhill

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Eugene Fama

An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

Eugene H. Peterson

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

Eugene H. Peterson

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

Eugene H. Peterson

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

Etty Hillesum

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Gucci Mane

I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Graham Chapman

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

Graham Greene

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

Graham Greene

I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever.

Girolamo Savonarola

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

Giuliana Rancic

When I went public with my breast cancer diagnosis six weeks ago, the overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support really helped me heal faster. I want to make sure to thank everyone.

Gerald Vann

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Gregory Maguire

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

Homer

Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

Ignatius of Loyola

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.