Prayer Quotes (157)
Quotes and citations about prayer
There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals... view
By: Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe... view
By: Loretta Young
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer... view
By: John Wooden
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results... view
By: Frank R. Wolf
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach... view
By: Woodrow Wilson
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach... view
By: Woodrow Wilson
I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it... view
By: Henry Wilson
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness... view
By: Marianne Williamson
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being... view
By: Armstrong Williams
Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America... view
By: David Wilkerson
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer... view
By: William Wilberforce
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals... view
By: Arthur Wellesley
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'.. view
By: Rick Warren
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers... view
By: Zack Wamp
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain... view
By: George C. Wallace
I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it... view
By: Voltaire
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it... view
By: Voltaire
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers... view
By: Virgil
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud... view
By: Gerald Vann
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer... view
By: Evelyn Underhill
I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life... view
By: Shania Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer... view
By: Mark Twain
I believe in prayer and in strong belief... view
By: Tina Turner
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer... view
By: Nat Turner
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four... view
By: Ivan Turgenev
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence... view
By: Martin Farquhar Tupper
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones... view
By: Saint Teresa
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God... view
By: Saint Teresa
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator.. view
By: Jeremy Taylor
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam... view
By: Johannes Tauler
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!.. view
By: Johannes Tauler
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine... view
By: Johannes Tauler
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer... view
By: Johannes Tauler
Music is a form of prayer... view
By: Toru Takemitsu
Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods... view
By: Whitley Strieber
Prayer is mans greatest power!.. view
By: W. Clement Stone
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too... view
By: Fisher Stevens
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy... view
By: Laurence Sterne
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church.. view
By: Edith Stein