Prayer Quotes

‘Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.’ – Mother Teresa

‘If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.’ – Meister Eckhart

‘Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.’ – John Wesley

‘To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.’ – Martin Luther

‘In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

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

‘True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.’ – James E. Faust

‘Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.’ – Mahalia Jackson

‘You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

”Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.’ – Alice Walker

‘Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.’ – Alan Cohen

‘For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.’ – Corrie Ten Boom

‘I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.’ – Roy Orbison

‘The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.” – Billy Graham

‘Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.’ – George Herbert

‘I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.’ – Voltaire

‘Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.’ – Mary Oliver

‘Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.’ – Myles Munroe

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

‘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

‘God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: ‘Use me.’ – Rick Warren’ – Rick Warren

‘Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night – be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.’ – Mark Twain

‘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 Pratchett

‘One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.’ – Paul Washer

‘My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.’ – Toby Keith

‘Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.’ – Samuel Butler

‘Prayer is man’s greatest power!’ – W. Clement Stone

‘Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful – it’s sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life – one with more oxygen.’ – Anjelica Huston

‘All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, ‘Get me home alive, God, and I’ll seek you and serve you.’ I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I’d made to God.’ – Louis Zamperini

‘I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.’ – Dennis Edwards

‘Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.’ – Pope Paul VI

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

‘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

‘Let God’s grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.’ – Guru Nanak

‘Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.’ – Charles Studd

‘I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘Prayer is God’s backstage pass into a personal audience with Him.’ – Tony Evans

‘After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn’t tell people who they can love or who they can marry.’ – Kay Hagan

‘Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.’ – John Wesley Powell

‘Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.’ – George Meredith

‘Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.’ – Joseph Murray

‘Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.’ – Nat Turner

‘In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.’ – John Bunyan

‘It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘The power of prayer and faith in God is something that has guided so many of us in good times and bad.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.’ – Harriet Tubman

‘Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘In the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.’ – Gary Busey

‘The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.’ – Will Rogers

‘I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.’ – Gabrielle Bernstein

‘I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He’s never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.’ – Raymond Moody

‘The Lord’s prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.’ – Duke of Wellington

‘Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.’ – Ellen G. White

‘For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.’ – Adolfo Perez Esquivel

‘God hears a mother’s prayer.’ – Victoria Gotti

‘Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.’ – Steve Harvey

‘Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.’ – E. Stanley Jones

‘There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.’ – Ivan Illich

‘The serenity prayer, ‘God grant me the strength to accept…’ That’s a prayer that’s actually in my car. I say it every day.’ – Lauren London

‘I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.’ – Derek Walcott

‘Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.’ – Edith Stein

‘Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.’ – Lou Holtz

‘I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.’ – Josephine Baker

‘Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.’ – Richard Holloway

‘Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.’ – Ernest Holmes

‘Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.’ – Jim Elliot

‘Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks – its touch can break the stoutest chains.’ – William Lloyd Garrison

‘I don’t know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I’m some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.’ – Henri Matisse

‘Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.’ – Richard Rohr

‘Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They’re my principal prayers; I don’t have a prayer list that I go down.’ – Pat Robertson

‘You’re not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You’re either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.’ – Mos Def

‘My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus.’ – John Piper

‘It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.’ – George Muller

‘An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.’ – Madalyn Murray O’Hair

‘Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.’ – Jonathan Edwards

‘It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And that can be just a few minutes sitting on your porch feeling the breeze against your face. That can be a few moments spent in meditation or in prayer or remembering three things you’re grateful for.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!’ – Pope Francis

‘Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life’s daily frustrations.’ – Chuck Norris

‘The ‘means of grace’ are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord’s Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification.’ – J. C. Ryle

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

‘Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community. He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was not religious.’ – Maya Soetoro-Ng

‘A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.’ – Phillips Brooks

‘The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.’ – Os Guinness

‘Music is a form of prayer.’ – Toru Takemitsu

‘Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.’ – Monica Johnson

‘Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.’ – Leonard Cohen

‘Prayer in private results in boldness in public.’ – Edwin Louis Cole

‘In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.’ – Martin Luther

‘Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.’ – Madame de Stael

‘Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.’ – Roberto Baggio

‘Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, ‘Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?’ It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.’ – Mark Batterson

‘I think prayer is one of the greatest healers around, more than medication.’ – Engelbert Humperdinck

‘Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.’ – Billy Graham

‘Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.’ – Joe Murray

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

‘Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.’ – Ivan Turgenev

‘I’m a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.’ – Janet Jackson

‘I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I’m just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that’s the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.’ – Tim Tebow

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

‘To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.’ – William James

‘True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.’ – Mary Baker Eddy

‘My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn’t worry too much about things.’ – Maria Bamford

‘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

‘When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.’ – Jeremy Taylor

‘Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.’ – Philip James Bailey

‘Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.’ – Tony Evans

‘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 Inge

‘Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God’s Book of Life.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.’ – Cokie Roberts

‘The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It’s absolutely like a prayer.’ – Ravi Shankar

‘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

‘I’ll tell you right now. I’m for prayer in school.’ – Kinky Friedman

‘A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.’ – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

‘Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God’s ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.’ – Ellen G. White

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

‘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

‘A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘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

‘Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.’ – George MacDonald

‘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

‘My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.’ – John Lewis

‘My ‘Book of Prayer’ is the most important thing I carry. If I’m tense about something or need to pray for protection for my kids, it always helps.’ – Tina Knowles

‘We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.’ – George Eliot

‘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

‘This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.’ – Wendell Berry

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

‘Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.’ – Dayananda Saraswati

‘Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn’t happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person – not to get too heavy about it – but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.’ – Gabriel Byrne

‘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

‘I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.’ – J. I. Packer

‘Grudge no expense – yield to no opposition – forget fatigue – till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .’ – Maria Weston Chapman

‘Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Vilnius was once known as ‘The Jerusalem of Lithuania’ because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.’ – Elizabeth McCracken

‘I knew in my heart that it was right to go on a mission, but it required a lot of fasting and prayer to make the decision.Now that I am returned, I realize even more that I made the right decision.’ – Shawn Bradley

‘In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.’ – Thomas Keating

‘Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.’ – David A. Bednar

‘In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.’ – Mark Foster

‘The proof is in the pudding. If you put your mind and hard work and prayer into what you do, it will happen.’ – Latto

‘If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life. I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.’ – Adam Savage

‘I don’t think there’s such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘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

‘We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that’s the only way most of us got through.’ – Sam Levenson

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

‘My prayer became ‘May I find peace… May I love this life no matter what.’ I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.’ – Tara Brach

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

‘Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Prayer is commitment. We don’t merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.’ – E. Stanley Jones

‘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

‘When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I’m actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I’m not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it’s something I should be doing.’ – Park Bo-gum

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

‘A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Prayer is where the action is.’ – John Wesley

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

‘I used to have a little silent prayer: ‘Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.’ That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.’ – Ted Danson

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

‘The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave – caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition – cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.’ – William Gurnall

‘In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.’ – W. H. Auden

‘Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.’ – Martin Luther

‘The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

‘It’s important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody’s is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that’s the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door.’ – India Arie

‘May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event intended to encourage people to ‘turn to God in prayer and meditation.” – Elizabeth Flock

‘In Lincoln’s day a President’s religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln’s countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.’ – David Herbert Donald

‘Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.’ – Henri Nouwen

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

‘I don’t believe in God, in prayer, in going to temples begging God to give me and my family happiness. I am not asking everyone to be an atheist, but good thoughts are not spent in a temple.’ – Suhasini Maniratnam

‘I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It’s gospel, and gospel is the truth. It’s what I do. I’m going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.’ – Mavis Staples

‘My longing for truth was a single prayer.’ – Edith Stein

‘I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and… almost involuntary in my life.’ – Mary Oliver

‘It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘I’m into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It’s just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you.’ – Kali Uchis

‘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

‘About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.’ – Will Rogers

‘Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.’ – David Wilkerson

‘I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.’ – Billy Graham

‘I think that’s a struggle of every Christian, to be able to get to that point where they’re in constant prayer with God – so that everything they do, in thought, in speech, in work, is praising God and worshipping God.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it’s about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.’ – Mark Batterson

‘A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord’s pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Titan is the one place in our solar system whose geographical and atmospheric diversity and complexity are rivaled only by the Earth’s. It’s very Earth-like, but it’s also very different, which means we have a lot to learn as well as a prayer of understanding what we find.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘We have to play ‘Livin’ on a Prayer,’ ‘Bad Medicine.’ We have to play them, and we want to play them, and that’s what we’re supposed to do. It’s like going to see The Beatles and them not playing your favorite song. It’s not the right thing to do.’ – David Bryan

‘We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it’s simply going hungry.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer

‘As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.’ – Arthur Middleton

‘That was my prayer – is that when people watch my videos for whatever that minute is, it takes their mind off of what’s going on in the world and it gives them a little bit of peace or a little bit of laughter or a little bit of joy.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Prayer is a privilege and the soul’s sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and ‘checklist’ prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept ‘not my will, but Thine, be done.” – David A. Bednar

‘An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.’ – Eugene Fama

‘My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.’ – Heber J. Grant

‘What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.’ – Thomas a Kempis

‘O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your love you accepted spittle on your face. Remove the shame from my face, and grant me to have an unashamed face before you at the time of prayer.’ – Isaac of Nineveh

‘My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.’ – Gabrielle Bernstein

‘When we were kids, we said the Pledge of Allegiance because we were proud of this country, and we said prayer. You know, we thanked the good Lord above.’ – Johnny Van Zant

‘For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.’ – Francis Collins

‘I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can – thinking, figuring, planning – and then you pray.’ – Conrad Hilton

‘I don’t know what in the world happened. I don’t know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just – the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me… All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!’ – Evel Knievel

‘Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.’ – Charles Lamb

‘Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Man’s access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it’s a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.’ – Horton Foote

”Safe Harbor’ is a state of mind… it’s the place – in reality or metaphor – to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.’ – Luanne Rice

‘Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God’s work and is powerless to project God’s cause in this world.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.’ – Alicia Keys

‘There have been times that I have taken prayer cloths that have been anointed as a point of contact. I put them in my loved ones sneakers, I put them under their bed. I put them on parts of my body that I believe God for healing.’ – Paula White

‘The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men – men of prayer.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.’ – John Updike

‘When fathers come home after a tough day at work, they should come home to serve, like my father did, teaching lessons around the dinner table and leading the family in worship and prayer.’ – Tony Evans

‘From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.’ – William Ames

‘In working with people across the country and around the world, I’ve come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.’ – Gloria Gaither

‘Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.’ – George Muller

‘My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time – nor ever will.’ – Madalyn Murray O’Hair

‘I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can’t disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.’ – John Tavener

‘Your personal time with God is huge, your quiet time, your study, prayer, but being around other Christian followers… and the church just feeds you. You come away feeling rejuvenated, you get a great message.’ – Ryan Tannehill

‘Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.’ – Justin Baldoni

‘I’ve always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn’t a magic formula, but it’s an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.’ – Mark Batterson

‘The fewer the words, the better the prayer.’ – Martin Luther

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

‘In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.’ – Mary Quant

‘The Latin root of ‘precariousness’ is ‘to obtain by prayer.’ The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.’ – Guy Standing

‘I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.’ – Kiran Bedi

‘Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer – established by the Congress – to be unconstitutional.’ – James Dobson

”Livin’ on a Prayer,’ ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ – those are iconic songs.’ – Orianthi

‘Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.’ – Josh McDowell

‘Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.’ – Jonathan Edwards

‘Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.’ – David A. Bednar

‘Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘I had people having prayer circles for me at the age of 10.’ – Tyler Henry

‘Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.’ – George Saunders

‘I like the monastic life… in the prayer and the praising… this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.’ – Pope Theodoros II

‘When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.’ – Ellen G. White

‘About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it’s a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I’m doing better at that, but I’ve got a long way to go.’ – Max Lucado

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

‘When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind of Heavenly Father being far away. As I have matured, my experience with prayer has changed. The picture in my mind has become one of a Heavenly Father who is close by, who is bathed in a bright light, and who knows me perfectly.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.’ – Ernest Holmes

‘I’m really in touch, whether it’s prayer or meditation… there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I’ve been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.’ – Lindsay Lohan

‘We’re living in what I like to call the ‘Thank You Economy,’ because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way – and do it authentically – are going to have a prayer of competing.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is – like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that’s where that’s a challenge.’ – Ali Shaheed Muhammad

‘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

‘Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us – an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.’ – E. Stanley Jones

‘One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.’ – Thomas Keating

‘Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.’ – Billy Graham

‘To go to the synagogue with one’s father on the Passover eve – is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one’s friends? Then the prayers themselves – the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.’ – Sholom Aleichem

‘Prayer is not so much the means whereby God’s will is bent to man’s desires, as it is that whereby man’s will is bent to God’s desires.’ – Charles Bent

‘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

‘I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.’ – David A. Bednar

‘I don’t know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.’ – David Brainerd

‘Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray – and to admit that he prays.’ – Thundercat

‘Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.’ – Mya

‘For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of ‘keeping company with God.” – Philip Yancey

‘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

‘Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.’ – Martin Farquhar Tupper

‘My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.’ – Aaron Neville

”Grace’ is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come – you really just have to stew in your life until it’s time to go. But sometimes, somebody else’s faith in you can do wonders.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating’s work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.’ – Tim Ryan

‘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

‘Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.’ – Victor Hugo

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

‘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

‘Prayer begins where human capacity ends.’ – Marian Anderson

‘Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

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

‘The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.’ – Havelock Ellis

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

‘Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.’ – George Santayana

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

‘Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.’ – Frederick William Robertson

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

‘He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord’s Prayer.’ – William Proxmire

‘It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.’ – Alex Grey

‘Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.’ – Adam Clarke

‘My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I’ve always been comforted by the power of prayer.’ – Anna Lee

‘The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.’ – Joseph Smith, Jr.

‘Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.’ – John Edward

‘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

‘My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.’ – Frank Wolf

‘I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.’ – Loretta Young

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I’ll often simply say, ‘let’s pray about this right now.” – Thomas Kinkade

‘So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I’m standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.’ – Aaron Neville

‘Just the same way I’d say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.’ – Rick Allen

‘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

‘Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.’ – Charles Bent

‘The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.’ – Horatio Alger

‘We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.’ – Bill Shuster

‘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

‘Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.’ – Michael Shermer

‘I’m for prayer in schools.’ – Charles Evers

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

‘It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It’s the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.’ – Rod Parsley

‘I do believe in the power of prayer.’ – Geraldine Ferraro

‘I believe in prayer and in strong belief.’ – Tina Turner

‘Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.’ – E. Stanley Jones

‘Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.’ – E. Stanley Jones

‘Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one’s head.’ – Harold Brodkey

‘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

‘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

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

‘When I was a kid, I’d kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.’ – Olympia Dukakis

‘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

‘I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.’ – Martha Reeves

‘I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.’ – Steven Cojocaru

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.’ – John Buchan

‘There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.’ – Vladimir Zhirinovsky

‘God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.’ – Evelyn Underhill

‘By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.’ – Malcolm Boyd

‘As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.’ – Nick Rahall

‘For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.’ – Nick Rahall

‘Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs – and we do so through the power of prayer.’ – Nick Rahall

‘With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation’s schools.’ – Nick Rahall

‘I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.’ – Pat Robertson

‘Well the basic thesis is that there’s a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that – he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people’s lives. And so I’ve documented some of these wonderful things.’ – Pat Robertson

‘When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.’ – Simon Newcomb

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

‘Poetry and prayer are very similar.’ – Carol Ann Duffy

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

‘I’ll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.’ – Jeff Gordon

‘God knows, we don’t want prayer.’ – Oliver North

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

‘Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.’ – Mary Baker Eddy

‘My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it’s harnessing the powers of your mind.’ – Boyd Rice

‘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

‘We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.’ – Alexander Herzen

‘Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.’ – William Inge

‘Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.’ – Zell Miller

‘I’m just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm’s way.’ – Sarah Palin

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

‘Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.’ – Debra Winger

‘Reading is the last act of secular prayer.’ – Richard Powers

‘I don’t need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.’ – Lewis Black

‘The traditional religious right’s failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.’ – Jon Meacham

‘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

‘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

‘The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.’ – Liam Neeson

‘I offer my performance as prayer for someone I’ve worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.’ – Liam Neeson

‘The most common phrase bandied about these days is ‘Oh my God’. People say it automatically all the time – not realising that that’s a form of prayer.’ – Morrissey

‘I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I’m growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things – being tenacious about it.’ – J. C. Watts

‘Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.’ – Tony Campolo

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

‘Prayer reminds me it’s not just about me. It’s about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. ‘The Brady Bunch’ was an answer to a prayer.’ – Susan Olsen

‘Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘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

‘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

‘Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.’ – Vera Farmiga

‘Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.’ – Jonathan Raban

‘I still say the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.’ – Rupert Sheldrake

‘I am walking proof of the power of prayer.’ – Fabrice Muamba

‘The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.’ – Sean Durkin

‘I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We’re all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn’t understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.’ – Sean Durkin

‘I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.’ – Patsy Kensit

‘I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer – a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.’ – Ken Buck

‘Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

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

‘Most of the great books on prayer are written by ‘experts’ – monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I’ve read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.’ – Philip Yancey

‘When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I’m qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!’ – Philip Yancey

‘It’s too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of ‘spiritual disciplines.’ Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don’t do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.’ – Philip Yancey

‘If I had to pick, I’d say my favorite book is ‘A Prayer For Owen Meany’, by John Irving.’ – Sarah Dessen

‘I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn’t find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.’ – Gloria Gaither

‘Too often the word ‘prayer’ induces guilt because we don’t do enough of it. After all, I’ve never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.’ – Mark Batterson

‘Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, ‘Gee whiz, isn’t this great,’ and have everyone’s head cocked like the RCA dog.’ – Mary Karr

‘It’s completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.’ – Mary Karr

‘I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I’d sooner do without air than prayer.’ – Mary Karr

‘While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.’ – Thomas Keating

‘If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that’s got to be one big message.’ – Tony Verna

‘When my children were growing up, we began every family meal – which included breakfast and dinner every day – with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren’t.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn’t hurt, either.’ – Carmen Agra Deedy

‘Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.’ – George W. Romney

‘My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here’s an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.’ – Graydon Carter

‘I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.’ – Henry Paulson

‘A word is an arbitrary label – that’s the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don’t snicker: Would you ever say, ‘Nothing has gone wrong yet’ without looking for wood to knock?’ – Steven Pinker

‘Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street vocabulary – nothing slang that would be unacceptable.’ – Stephen Baldwin

‘I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.’ – Tim Tebow

‘Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.’ – George Muller

‘To ascertain the Lord’s will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.’ – George Muller

‘Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer – persistent prayer – can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz

‘The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That’s why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.’ – Michele Bachmann

‘When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That’s what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.’ – Michele Bachmann

‘Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.’ – Julian Baggini

‘Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood – I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won’t be met by silence.’ – Jack Whitehall

‘Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘The soul of a woman is so important to maintain given all that is on our plates. Figuring out how to do it can be a little tricky. My prayer was, ‘Lord, please help me. How can I do it all and not be overwhelmed? How can I do it all and still be happy?’ His answer: Find the stolen moments of joy in all you do.’ – Niecy Nash

‘I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I’d always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang ‘I Say a Little Prayer.’ It’s a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.’ – Naomi Scott

‘If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that’s obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.’ – Anne Graham Lotz

‘When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does – from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.’ – Anne Graham Lotz

‘I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.’ – Anne Graham Lotz

‘My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.’ – Sonu Nigam

‘For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one – reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new – that’s my prayer.’ – Sonu Nigam

‘Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.’ – Immaculee Ilibagiza

‘The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.’ – Catherine Hicks

‘I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn’t always show up on my time, but he always shows up!’ – Rachel Boston

‘Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He’s provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives – not only around the dinner table, but all day long.’ – Phil Robertson

‘Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what’s wrong with that?’ – Dennis Quaid

‘The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained – through prayer, study, and careful analysis – to manifest the divine event of God’s saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm’s way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures – 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn’t have died in office.’ – James Dobson

‘Praying doesn’t mean repeating a prayer.’ – Juanes

‘Spirituality – prayer – is a big part of my life.’ – David Hasselhoff

‘It’s the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek… is like a beautiful opera, but way better.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing.’ – Monica Johnson

‘Pray for someone else’s child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There’s no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.’ – Monica Johnson

‘Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that’s not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.’ – Monica Johnson

‘Make intercessory prayer a priority in your life and the life of your family. It will cause you to be more empathetic, less self-obsessed, and increasingly more like Christ.’ – Monica Johnson

‘All my time not devoted to my master’s service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.’ – Nat Turner

‘To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.’ – L. Lionel Kendrick

‘Throughout my life, I have talked to Heavenly Father regularly through prayer. I am very grateful to my parents for teaching me that Heavenly Father lives and that He always listens to us. He listens to me, and He listens to you. I know that He will always be there for you.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld

‘My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell.’ – Harold B. Lee

‘My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they’d read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There’s not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I’m still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.’ – Trey Burke

‘Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of my father’s Egyptian friends questioned his decision not to raise his only child more strictly in the faith. I was not taught salat, the Muslim ritual of prayer, nor did I study Arabic.’ – Shereen El Feki

‘The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who’ve put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘I love prayer candles, and I use them often.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘There’s something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer – the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You’re not praying to a god, but you’re almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That’s what books do: they’re an invitation to readers.’ – Ruth Ozeki

‘I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I’m in awe.’ – Horton Foote

‘There stand out in my life many incidents in my youth, of wonderful inspiration and power through men preaching the gospel in the spirit of testimony and prayer.’ – Heber J. Grant

‘Don’t be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I’m using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don’t practice a lot… Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.’ – Jackie Evancho

‘I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.’ – Jodi Benson

‘I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it’s my go-to.’ – Jodi Benson

‘With agents, I’ve learned to bring them into the process when I feel confident. You’re the only one that can really know what’s right for your career. You’re on a wing and a prayer through most of it.’ – Casey Wilson

‘I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.’ – Gail Devers

‘My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.’ – Roma Downey

‘Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it’s important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.’ – Catherine Hicks

‘I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute – prayer, contemplation, focus – is up to them.’ – Liz Williams

‘If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day… what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?’ – Jim Webb

‘In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God’s presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world’s affairs and prevents Him from working.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘In doing God’s work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has God ever committed Himself in this world.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘Prayer must be broad in its scope – it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one’s personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord’s Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we’re to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.’ – Adam Hamilton

‘Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder – and a song comes up every day.’ – Andrae Crouch

‘What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.’ – Bryce Dallas Howard

‘Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain’t judging nobody.’ – Betty Wright

‘We’re so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, ‘under God indivisible,’ but there’s no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn’t be able to go through a day – but that’s my own experience.’ – Virginia Euwer Wolff

‘I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn’t as important as what you do on the inside.’ – Alana Stewart

‘All of my babies know that I preach all day… I ain’t trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain’t judging nobody.’ – Betty Wright

‘I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene – bigger, higher, faster, scarier. I have a deal with God. If I’m breathing, that’s a prayer for my sons’ safety.’ – Linda Thompson

‘I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I’m merely the instrument of greater creative forces.’ – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

‘Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.’ – Phil Klay

”Cover Me.’ ‘Take Time To Know Her.’ ‘Warm and Tender Love.’ ‘Out Of Left Field.’ ‘Dark End Of The Street.’ ‘Tears Me Up.’ ‘My Special Prayer.’ All points back to one song. ‘When A Man Loves A Woman.’ The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.’ – Percy Sledge

‘I concluded that all religions had the same foundation – a belief in the supernatural – a power above nature that man could influence by worship – by sacrifice and prayer.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.’ – Alice McDermott

‘The language of the Catholic Church – the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels – was in many ways my first poetry.’ – Alice McDermott

‘I hold onto the Scripture that says, ‘Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.’ I’m not saying I don’t have problems or that I don’t worry, but I try not to be stressed. I manage my anxiety through prayer. Worry shows up on your face, and I don’t want that!’ – Kim Fields

‘In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere ‘prayer book’ paper that permitted the space for Shepard’s illustrations to Pepys’ diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.’ – Chris Riddell

‘My prayer is improvised – though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters – and asks for nothing.’ – Darin Strauss

‘Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.’ – Isabella Bird

‘The Congressional Prayer Caucus has worked successfully to advocate for and protect values that are fundamental to the fabric of our nation, and I’m honored to serve as co-chairman.’ – James Lankford

‘It is a bipartisan gathering to be able to pray for the needs back in our districts, for our families and each other. Another thing the prayer caucus does is to address religious liberty issues around the country as they arise.’ – James Lankford

‘I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It’s a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.’ – Jay Parini

‘It’s impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.’ – Jay Parini

‘I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it’s a very athletic show. We’ve got to entertain; it’s what we do.’ – Lindsey Stirling

‘Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.’ – Lindsey Stirling

‘The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit.’ – Toussaint Louverture

‘Prayer is so complicated.’ – Rachel Kushner

”Kol Nidrei’ is probably the most important prayer in the Jewish religion. It comes on the evening of Yom Kippur. There are so many different renditions of it.’ – Itzhak Perlman

‘I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.’ – John Fleming

‘Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees receive the same medical care as the guard force and are able to participate in their daily prayer sessions.’ – Tom Cotton

‘A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities.’ – Chuck Norris

‘Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills.’ – Vincent McNabb

‘St. Thomas is right. The essential prayer is the prayer of petition.’ – Vincent McNabb

‘Dear children in Jesus Christ, prayer is absolutely necessary.’ – Vincent McNabb

‘Our dear Lord said we should pray always. Everything we are doing should be either a prayer in itself or can be made into a prayer. Any action that is not in itself wrong can be done in union with God and His divine will.’ – Vincent McNabb

‘All I’m saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don’t even trust with our daily lives… As long as there’s prayer and exams, as long as there’s games, there will be prayers.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘I think when a musician loses their inhibition and dives deep into their soul, that’s a prayer. It’s so powerful that you will touch people whether it’s good or bad.’ – Arturo O’Farrill

‘I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was, ‘God, let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother.’ I was able to do that ’til the day she died because of my audience.’ – Tyler Perry

‘I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter’s bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘For Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, the holy month of Ramadan – a time of fasting and prayer for the vast majority of Muslims – is seen as a particularly auspicious time to launch terrorist attacks.’ – Peter Bergen

‘Just everything that I’ve done, everything that I do, is to this day, all major decisions are all through prayer – all my actions, although a sinner, but you know what? I’m cool with that.’ – Terry Bradshaw

‘I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.’ – Aaron Neville

‘Singing is a prayer to me.’ – Aaron Neville

‘Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.’ – Ephraim Mirvis

‘I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also of those who humbly do not believe in the efficacy of their prayers, as well as of those who do not believe in prayer at all and even consider it useless.’ – Nikolai Gogol

‘If Congress can strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over school prayer cases, there is no provision in the Constitution immune from congressional tampering.’ – Max Baucus

‘School prayer, abortion, and school busing are indeed controversial issues. I doubt that there ever will be complete agreement on the public-policy questions they raise.’ – Max Baucus

‘Although the ACLU would argue that it is unconstitutional for me, as a public official, to do this in a government building, let alone at a football game, I will end with my prayer for the next administration: Please God, no more Souters.’ – William H. Pryor

‘Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it’s very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we’re just maintaining that routine.’ – Anthony Joshua

‘Prayer is a form of meditation, isn’t it? It’s laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it receives. It’s just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.’ – Anthony Joshua

‘Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we’d go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the spirit and spiritual bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful.’ – John Lewis

‘What I normally do before going on stage is pray – normally we do a group prayer with the crew or whoever is around, like our security guard, our tour manager and whoever else is back there and wants to pray with us.’ – Normani Kordei

‘I really believe in prayer.’ – Shanice Williams

‘You can meditate on almost anything: a prayer, song, image or word. Close your eyes; sit in a comfortable position. Take a breath, and say the word out loud, emphasizing the humming sound at the end. When you come to the end of the breath, take another one and say the word again. And so on.’ – Dean Ornish

‘Ford is such an answered prayer and an absolute blessing.’ – Virginia Williams

‘You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk to yourself and what you say morning, noon and night about what you want to happen in your life. Some folks call that creative visualization. Other people call it prayer. But it is about that message that you send out there to yourself.’ – Al Jarreau

‘I grew up in the church, and my mom is, like a major prayer warrior.’ – Rotimi

‘When I think about ‘Since U Been Gone,’ I think the first thing that comes to mind is ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ – they’re kind of like sisters, a little bit. And ‘Call Me Maybe’ was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.’ – Bonnie McKee

‘I knew ‘Promises,’ and I knew ‘Never Fall In Love Again,’ only from the radio, from being a kid; and of course, that ‘House is Not a Home’ and ‘Say A Little Prayer.” – Sean Hayes

‘I believe in prayer. I pray every night.’ – John McCain

‘Prayer is the most important thing that I do.’ – Wayne Huizenga

‘Through the 1980s and ’90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition pressed for laws recognizing Christianity’s unique place in American life, including laws that would allow prayer in public schools and Christian displays in public places.’ – Josh Hawley

‘I have said in many interviews that God had a better plan for me than I ever anticipated. I still firmly believe that, and I am grateful for a prayer answered.’ – Phyllis Smith

‘When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.’ – Jacqueline Woodson

‘Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.’ – Jacqueline Woodson

‘I never heard about tefillin. I was unfamiliar with the deep history and ritual of being an Orthodox Jew. Before you get out of bed, you say a prayer, and then you get out of bed, say another one.’ – Ato Essandoh

‘I’m not proud that, in my time, I’ve tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.’ – Faith Salie

‘We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.’ – Jason Kander

‘To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.’ – Luis Alberto Urrea

‘Forgiveness is enshrined in the Lord’s prayer – forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. These scriptures point to the power of forgiveness not only as a way to absolve transgressions but to ensure that the person extending forgiveness will be forgiven of theirs.’ – Anthea Butler

‘I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first.’ – Lupita Nyong’o

‘My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age – our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: ‘Dear God, please don’t let him get Ebola.’ I’m proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that’s not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.’ – Kent Brantly

‘I believe in God and the power of prayer.’ – Kris Jenner

‘The history of our country has been driven by a Judeo-Christian worldview, and so that has dominated the landscape. So it’s important that we recognize the lordship of Jesus Christ without apology in our emphasis on prayer.’ – Tony Evans

‘Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it.’ – Tony Evans

‘I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.’ – Tony Evans

‘I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don’t think we ask enough: ‘God what do you want to do with me?’ Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.’ – Scott Pruitt

‘My prayer for ORU is this, that this university may become the fertile womb for the next generation of Holy Spirit evangelists, to build his eternal kingdom.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which every American child and every adult are protected from the ravages of brutality, safe and secure in our homes and schools and communities.’ – Bernice King

‘I pray quite a bit, actually. And even if you don’t believe in prayer, just have a go. Pray for a good day, or just pray for your friend, or whatever it might be. And it’s amazing, man, ’cause it absolutely works. I guarantee, it genuinely does work.’ – Rob Halford

‘A couple months before I got the audition for ‘Arrow,’ my husband and I had just sold everything we owned, packed our dogs and belongings into a truck, and moved to Los Angles with a prayer and almost no money. When I ended up booking the role, we both cried from joy and gratitude for a week straight.’ – Juliana Harkavy

‘I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can’t control.’ – Courtney A. Kemp

‘We have people on the road with us – our wives, our families and pastors. We come alongside each other, and we’re always in prayer.’ – Sonny Sandoval

‘It’s very important to have that prayer life. It’s very important to communicate always.’ – LeToya Luckett

‘My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.’ – LeToya Luckett

‘Everybody thought I was going to give up after the Destiny’s Child situation. But I’m not one to say, ‘Oh, poor me – it’s over.’ I knew that as long as I kept a strong prayer life, I would be able to fulfil my destiny.’ – LeToya Luckett

‘When I first got into the major label system, they were like, ‘Hey, you’re great – now write with a million people so we can get songs.’ That was something I hadn’t done before, and the songwriters I was working with had worked on some massive numbers – like ‘True Colours.’ One of the guys wrote ‘Livin On A Prayer.” – LP

‘At the end of the day, when I kick back with some barbecue and a CokeZero in front of a blockbuster film playing within the convenience of my fully air-conditioned house, I’ll say a small prayer thanking God for the American culture.’ – Steven Crowder

‘Firstly, before every game, I always speak with my mum. She really encourages me a lot. Then, once I’m out on the field, I say a little prayer for my team and for everyone on the field, both sides, so that nothing bad happens, no-one gets injured.’ – Naby Keita

‘It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.’ – Basil Hume

‘In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God’s response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer.’ – Basil Hume

‘The experience of prayer when there is no awareness of God and no apparent response from ourselves should not lead us to escape from prayer or give it up.’ – Basil Hume

‘Know how to ‘cling’ to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are called to serve.’ – Basil Hume

‘I go to a small Catholic school where we have mass every week and say a prayer every morning, but we also are in Los Angeles, where people are so progressive and open.’ – Josie Totah

‘How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can’t. We shouldn’t. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.’ – Abby Johnson

‘The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer – in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.’ – Yogi Adityanath

‘Our synagogues are spread all over the world, and we want people to respect them and look after them. And we have to respect the places of prayer of others.’ – A. B. Yehoshua

‘I wanted to be a guitar player and musician so badly, and I prayed to get this the very few times I went to church, and I feel like I got my prayer answered.’ – John 5

‘I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London’s Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an East London borough that is about 38% Muslim, among the highest in the U.K. As I walked down Whitechapel Road, the adhan, or call to prayer, echoed through the neighborhood.’ – Andy Ngo

‘I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it’s like being called to prayer.’ – Ezra Furman

‘I don’t believe in prayer, I’m a pretty hardcore agnostic.’ – Simone Giertz

‘Before I go to those teams, I say, ‘Hey, I’m a Muslim and I have to pray five times a day.’ And they respect it so much that they give me a prayer room. So before the game, after the game, before practice, before I fly out, I can go to that room whenever I want and pray.’ – Enes Kanter

‘The President’s extraordinary commitment to religious liberty has been obvious since the very beginning of his presidency – just two weeks after his inauguration, Donald Trump attended the National Prayer Breakfast where he stressed the importance of preserving and cherishing religious values.’ – Paula White

‘When I get out of bed in the morning, I literally say a prayer. The first thing I do is thank God that I got through the night.’ – Shannon Bream

‘I’d never go up to somebody and start preaching, but if somebody asks I’m willing to talk about it. Often, after people have seen me praying, they’ll ask and it’s a chance to show how normal prayer time is and why we do it, to teach people about the religion. Not to try to change them, but to explain.’ – Moeen Ali

‘Today, there’s no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.’ – A’Lelia Bundles

‘For years, I prayed to the gods of Cao Dai for healing and peace. But as one prayer after another went unanswered, it became clear that either they were nonexistent or they did not care to lend a hand.’ – Phan Thi Kim Phuc

‘I don’t boast about being a holy person but I know that prayer can do miracles.’ – Johnny Lever

‘Why are these things happening in Portland? In part, it’s because we are a progressive community. Groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys… they come from the outside. They come here because they know that their message is not necessarily welcomed here. They’re trying to provoke a reaction.’ – Ted Wheeler

‘For me, making time for God is like making time to fill my stomach – like the physical space in the stomach needs food, spiritual space in one’s soul needs regular prayer.’ – Kay Kay Menon

‘It’s been a long time since I’ve done any karaoke. Probably, I actually think ‘Living On a Prayer’ was the last one I’ve done, which I’m quite embarrassed to admit, screaming it at the top of my lungs. I prefer being the one watching and egging people on.’ – Sophie Cookson

‘I’d been focused on trying to start civil disobedience since 2010. I’d tried many things and they hadn’t worked. So I went on a retreat and prayed, with some psychedelic medicines. It was really intense and I prayed for what I called the codes for social change and within a month my prayer was answered.’ – Gail Bradbrook

‘You know, I suffer kind of from survivor’s guilt. It’s like you suffer from success because you feel like – why me? Why am I so special? What makes me so different from the next man and why am I able to achieve these things that this person can’t? Prayer is the only thing that helps me get through it.’ – Goldlink

‘I can remember coming downstairs before school every day and my mom would be reading her Bible and doing her devotion and praying. Both my parents were prayer warriors.’ – Mike Fisher

‘My life is one big prayer because my life is one big blessing.’ – Rekha

‘I believe that wishes and hopes have a slight negative tinge to them. It is something which postpones what you should get. Prayer is better where you have a direct connection with God and it also has the power to make it happen for you.’ – Rekha

”Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain’ is a film seen through my eyes. I play a labourer.’ – Rajpal Yadav

‘I tell people that If one woman can get prayer taken out of the school, it may very well be that God Is asking another woman to get prayer back into the schools. I am confident that’s what God wants us to do.’ – Anita Bryant

‘There was a time in my life that I thought prayer did not matter either. There was a time earlier in my life where I did not give God a second thought.’ – Ernie Johnson Jr.

‘I believe people can change and I believe through the power of prayer, God can change people and people’s outlooks.’ – Ernie Johnson Jr.

‘Before I go and even get in an airplane to go on a flight, I say a prayer, and I always think about my family.’ – Victor J. Glover

‘I always say a prayer before the blocks – it helps calm me down.’ – Caeleb Dressel

‘As a non believer I don’t get the idea of asking god for things via prayer.’ – Uday Chopra

‘I feel God’s presence in my life, as a direct result of prayer. We say, ‘Why, God?’ when bad things happen to us. But I don’t know how anybody can live without faith.’ – Sara Evans

‘The very name Jerusalem means City of Peace. Violently evicting families from their homes in which generations have lived is not an act of peace. A show of strong force during prayer is not an act of peace. Destroying holy sites is not an act of peace.’ – Jamaal Bowman

‘I say a little prayer before I sleep.’ – Kunal Kapoor

‘Find out what works for you, whether it’s exercise, gardening, prayer, cooking, reading or any other activity that engages you and your family in positive acclivities and plan these activities into your day.’ – Karen Pence

‘We’re people of faith so we just try and approach everything with prayer.’ – Karen Pence

‘With a lot of prayer and the support of my family and friends, I have been able to rebuild my life and pursue my dreams!’ – Porsha Williams

‘I thank the Ghanaians and all Africans across the world for their support and prayer.’ – Edouard Mendy

‘Dance is like a prayer for me. I will never leave it, when I am dancing I am dancing for my God.’ – Esha Deol