Prayer Quotes

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

I'm for prayer in schools.