Prayer Quotes

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

Music, Religion, Poetry

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

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

Power, Walking, Proof

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

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

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

Lord, Knows, Tax

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

Reading, Singing, Bible

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

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

God, Help, Words

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

Heart, Deep, Core

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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