Prayer Quotes

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

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.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

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.

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.