Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Robertson

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long.

Tennessee Williams

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Ted McGinley

I feel bad for people who (don't have) faith because they don't have that blanket of comfort...If I'm going out on stage, I always say a prayer right before I go out. Whatever it is. Before I take off on a plane. There's just always this connection...God knows. I know. That's all I need.

Rob Bell

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

Richard Powers

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Richard Rohr

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

Richard Rohr

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

Michel de Montaigne

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

George Crabbe

Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?

Philip James Bailey

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Philip James Bailey

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Peyton Manning

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

Johnny Cash

When you sing, you pray twice.

John Taylor

If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

Neale Donald Walsch

Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling - is creative.

Nancy Willard

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

Joseph Addison

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

Jose Saramago

Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

Joni Eareckson Tada

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?

Jonathan Swift

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Kay Hagan

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

Madeleine L'Engle

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

Madeleine L'Engle

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

Madeleine L'Engle

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

Madeleine L'Engle

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

Madeleine L'Engle

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

Madeleine L'Engle

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying....

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Louisa May Alcott

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.

John Flavel

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

John Flavel

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.