The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

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

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

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
Origen

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

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Franz Kafka

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

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Henry Ellis

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Muhammad Iqbal

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William James

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Georges Bernanos

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.
John Wooden

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Hoover

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
Warren E. Burger