Prayer Quotes

I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.
Tamar Braxton

Keep, Top, List

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.
Jane Elliot

Religion, Group, Started

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
Joel C. Rosenberg

God, Enough, Put

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

Love, Health, Positive

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.
Frederic William Farrar

Great, Men, Father

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau

Music, Religion, Poetry

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
Julia Margaret Cameron

Men, Before, Soul

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
Fabrice Muamba

Power, Walking, Proof

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
James Hogg

Family, Time, Bad

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.
Charles Kimbrough

Time, Character, Laugh

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

Reading, Bible, Singing

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

Lord, Knows, Tax

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
Harold E. Hughes

God, Help, Words

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.
Gerald Vann

Whole, Means, Fail

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Charles Bent

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.
Francis W. Newman

School, Old, Secret

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

Work, Good, Real

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

Heart, Deep, Core

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

Long, Before, Place

I think at some point at a moment of enlightenment in the future, the federal government and perhaps a future Supreme Court is going to say it's not a bad thing for children to hear prayer in school.
Phil Bryant

Government, Future, School

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