Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own...

George W. Bush

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

George W. Bush

I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today. It reminds me that the Almighty God is a God to everybody, every person.

George W. Bush

I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation.

George W. Bush

Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."

George R. R. Martin

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

George Carlin

I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow.

George Carlin

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

Garth Brooks

Thank God for unanswered prayers.

Garth Brooks

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

Frederick Douglass

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Frederick Buechner

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

Frederick Buechner

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

Frederick Buechner

Go where your best prayers take you.

Frederick Buechner

Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?

Frank Sinatra

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

George Eliot

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

Henry Martyn

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

Henry Miller

Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

Cat Stevens

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Catharine Beecher

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...

George Eliot

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

George Eliot

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

Geoffrey Chaucer

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Franz Schubert

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Frank R. Wolf

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.

George Herbert

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

George Herbert

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

George Herbert

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

J. C. Watts

There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.

J. B. Priestley

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

J. C. Ryle

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

J. C. Ryle

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.