Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Largent

Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to every individual who was affected by these powerful storms, ... Despite facing serious obstacles, the wireless industrys response to these natural disasters was nothing short of Herculean. We remain fully committed to aiding and assisting our subscribers in the affected regions in whatever way we can.

Steve Harvey

Sometimes we don't appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!

Steve Allen

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

Viktor E. Frankl

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Vanna Bonta

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Susan Olsen

I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.

Susan Vreeland

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

Tariq Ramadan

The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.

Tariq Ramadan

Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.

Steve Camp

Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival.

Sigrid Undset

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

Shirley MacLaine

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

Steven Adler

There are so many Al Anon fans and friends who have shown me wonderful love, prayers, thoughts! I thank everyone for this. It feels great to have wonderful people behind you, pushing and praying for you. Mostly, I don't want to let myself down, but they encourage me not to let them down.

Steven Pinker

A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?

Susan L. Taylor

When you pray, remember that you are not praying to a distant God, but to the God that dwells within you. Don't just speak the words; feel what they mean in your life. Don't pray from your lips, but from your heart. Your prayers aren't for God, they are for you, to remind you of the presence of the Holy Spirit within you. When you say "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done," remember that you are loved and protected. God has planned greater things for us than we can imagine. The more we maintain an awareness of God's unchanging love, the safer and more at home we will feel in the world.

Sun Ra

Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer

Sue Monk Kidd

To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.

Sue Monk Kidd

The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

Robert Burns

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

Robert Burns

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Robbie Robertson

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Tryon Edwards

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Tryon Edwards

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Truman Capote

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

Rick Yancey

Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

Rick Yancey

I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.

Rick Warren

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

Rick Warren

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

Rick Warren

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.

Rick Warren

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

Rick Warren

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

Rick Warren

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

Rick Warren

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.