Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.

Yoko Ono

Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.

Yann Martel

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Wolfgang Schauble

History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.

Willie Nelson

Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.

William Penn

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

William Penn

In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

Yehuda Berg

God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.

Yehuda Berg

Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

Zell Miller

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

I think our goalie is still praying over that one.

I'll pray for you, that you stay safe.

I really say a prayer of thanks and that she was able to go.

I pray that you're not afraid, and I pray that you're safe and warm every night. I want you to be strong, I want you to get away if you can, and I want you to come home.

Ed Asner

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

Salim Khan

I pray he was not there when there was the earthquake, ... How can I know?

I pray a lot. It won't be bad.

Neale Donald Walsch

Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling - is creative.

Nancy Willard

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

Joseph Addison

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

Jose Saramago

Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

Joni Eareckson Tada

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?

Jonathan Swift

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Kay Hagan

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.

Khalil Gibran

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

Khalil Gibran

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

Khalil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Jonathan Swift

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

Jonathan Reckford

The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.

Jonathan Raban

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Jonathan Sacks

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.