Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Karon

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today

Juvenal

Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

Juvenal

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

Juvenal

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]

Cal Thomas

People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?

Catherynne M. Valente

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

Catherynne M. Valente

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

Billy Sunday

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

Billy Sunday

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

Billy Sunday

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Beryl Bainbridge

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

Benjamin Harrison

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Benjamin Spock

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

Bertrand Russell

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Charles Simeon

Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

Charles Sanders Peirce

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

Charles Evers

I'm for prayer in schools.

Bob Schaffer

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Bill Maher

Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer. You know, i know you're not supposed to say this about elected officials, but I would pay to see Rick Perry defend himself against a school shooter with prayer.

Bill Maher

The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

Bernard Malamud

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

Bernard of Clairvaux

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Bob McDonnell

Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.

Bob Marley

Complaints are prayers to the devil.

Black Elk

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

Black Elk

Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.

Black Elk

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

Bennett Cerf

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Benny Hinn

Be specific in your prayer requests of GOD.

Benjamin Whichcote

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.