Prayer Quotes

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
Tom Vilsack

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
Tom Vilsack

Rain, Dance, Struggling

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.
Mike Huckabee

Mind, Important, Thoughts

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
Stockwell Day

Life, Today, Political

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
Kelsey Grammer

Time, God, Same

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
Mitch Daniels

Long, Almost, Generation

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.
Naguib Mahfouz

Important, Treat, Head

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Night, Others, Read

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.
Catherine O'Hara

Family, Good, God

Every time 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.
Whitley Strieber

Time, God, Someone

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

Soul, Religious, Open

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.
Edith Stein

God, Heart, Makes

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.
Johannes Tauler

Time, Night, Find

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
Johannes Tauler

True, Everything, Turn

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.
Johannes Tauler

True, Saying, Thoughts

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Al Sharpton

School, Around, Bear

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Richard Powers

Last, Reading, Act

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.
John Clayton

Life, Hope, Mistakes

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Richard Cecil

Love, God, Hope

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry

Heart, Feeling, Night

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
George Carey

Fire, Takes, Goes

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.
Henry Wilson

Here, Lord, Number

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

Sense, Talk, Often

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
Dennis Kucinich

Powerful, Lord, Francis

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

Religion, Lord, Morals

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.
Giancarlo Esposito

Experience, Live, Spiritual

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
Charles Simeon

Faith, Good, Evil

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden

Good, God, Best

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
Michael W. Smith

Service, National, Cathedral

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

God, Forget, Wish

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