Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
Bob Schaffer

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
Mary Antin

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Mark Hopkins

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
Mother Maribel

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Terry Prachett

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
Armstrong Williams

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
Mary Austin

Poetry and prayer are very similar.
Carol Ann Duffy

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Austin O'Malley

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
Frederick William Robertson

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
Marian Anderson

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Margaret Mead

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.
Robert McAfee Brown

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
William Ralph Inge

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

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
Edwin Louis Cole

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates