Quotes about prayer
prayer school house
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools. Nick Rahall
prayer powerful people
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer. Nick Rahall
prayer lying character
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good. Mary McCarthy
prayer believe enough
To say a prayer is not enough. One has to believe that it's possible for that prayer to be heard. Marvin Hier
prayer failure heart
God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family. Marvin J. Ashton
prayer taken dust
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par. Mark Twain
prayer cutting enemy
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. Mark Twain
prayer gone want
I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone. Nicholas Sparks
prayer religion praying
I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway. Nicholas Sparks
prayer believe imperfect-world
He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned. Nicholas Sparks
prayer amazed
As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed! Neal A. Maxwell
prayer literature kind
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. Muhammad Iqbal
prayer our-generation long
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. Mitch Daniels
prayer would-be needs
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde
prayer punishment answers
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers. Oscar Wilde
prayer voice take-me
Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there. Madonna Ciccone
prayer son years
I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish. Madonna Ciccone
prayer heart people
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last. Lydia M. Child
prayer player games
When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game. Luke Zeller
prayer wind sea
When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death. Lucretius
prayer heart hands
As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart. Margaret Sanger
prayer heart my-heart
My heart and prayers go out to every individual Michael Jackson
prayer believe love-you
I just want to say to fans in every corner of the earth, every nationality, every race, every language: I love you from the bottom of my heart. I would love your prayers and your goodwill, and please be patient and be with me and believe in me because I am completely, completely innocent. But please know a lot of conspiracy is going on as we speak. Michael Jackson
prayer have-faith facts
I am here in spirit with you and you are in my prayers. Remember God is with you, and have faith in the fact that this too shall pass. Michael Jackson
prayer men world
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God. Michel de Montaigne
prayer odds waiting
When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. Mark Twain
prayer heart meditation
Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours. Marianne Williamson
prayer light darkness
With every prayer and every thought of love, we release the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our lights are part of God. Marianne Williamson
prayer powerful healing
To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things. Marianne Williamson
prayer creative miracle
First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered. Marianne Williamson
prayer heart insane-world
The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts. Marianne Williamson
prayer purpose sacred
The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us. Marianne Williamson
prayer force-fields meditation
So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation. Marianne Williamson