Prayers Quotes (853 Quotes)

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

I want to thank all of those who were involved in my rescue - to those who continuously tracked my captors and location, and to those who physically brought me freedom today. To all of you, I will be forever grateful. Both of us are in good health and look forward to returning to our respective families. Thank you to all who kept me and my family in their thoughts and prayers.

Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good, ... When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. All last night sat on the levee and moaned.

It is just a worship service and its focus is a time of guided prayer.

I've been praying for a long time. Looks like my prayers were answered.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

To such, if they should whisper
Of morning and the moor,
They bear no other errand,
And I, no other prayer.

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.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims as they try to cope with the loss and impact of this natural disaster.

You pray for a lot of things when it begins to happen you don't notice it, but it's even more scary when you do notice. I noticed that not necessarily my prayers were answered, maybe not the way I wanted it to happen, but the way God wanted it to happen.

This tragedy in the Gulf Coast states is unfathomable. We are confident we can raise money through this effort to assist in some small way. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone during this tragedy.

In that very moment when I had the reality of knowing that six of my children were gone, God did something very precious, ... The Garden of Prayer.

Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.

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.

Our prayers are with the family members, friends and colleagues of the seven astronauts. Those we lost today are heroes.

The arrival of the Pope to the birthplace of the first cathedral west of the Mississippi was truly an honor and Americans poured into St. Louis to participate in prayer services, a rally and celebration mass.

Randy (the Ford's other son) is still healing from his accident earlier this year (he was struck by a sprint car in July, suffering a broken leg). With Doug's condition, racing just isn't that important right now. We appreciate the prayers and encouragement we have received from the racing community, but our family needs to be together right now. I hope everyone understands.

Be charitable in your thoughts, in your speech and in your actions. Be charitable in your judgments, in your attitudes and in your prayers. Think charitably of your friends, your neighbors, your relatives and even your enemies. And if there be those whom you can help in a material way, do so in a quiet, friendly, neighborly way, as if it were the most common and everyday experience for you. Tongues of men and angels, gifts of prophecy and all mysteries and all knowledge are as nothing without charity.

In our faith, we attempt to live our lives as a prayer, always communing with God and looking at our activities and trying to determine how we could make improvements.

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.

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

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.

The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every ageand their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, And prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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.

The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.

From every place below the skies The grateful song, the fervent prayer, The incense of the heart, may rise To heaven, and find acceptance there.

There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine guidance through prayer. Though persecutions arise, though reverses come, in prayer we can find reassurance, for God will speak peace to the soul. That peace, that spirit of serenity, is life's greatest blessing. .

Prayer may be an effective adjunct to standard medical care.

Life was made greater by their sweetheart prayers.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

When We made the House a pilgrimage for men and a (place of) security, and Appoint for yourselves a place of prayer on the standing-place of Ibrahim. And We enjoined Ibrahim and Ismail saying Purify My House for those who visit (it) and those who a

A lot of schools we never should have had open. I wanted to tear this system apart two years ago. God answered my prayers.

You're the love of my life and the breath in my prayers. Take my hand and lead me there.. what I need is you here. I can't forget the taste of your mouth from your lips all the heavens pour out. I can't forget when we are one. With you alone I am free.

Princess Margaret was a proud mother and grandmother whose compassion and support for charities helped better the lives of many in need, ... Our thoughts and prayers are with her children, grandchildren and the entire royal family.

Our thoughts and prayers are with her children and her family.

My coaches always told me to follow my own shot, and that's what I did. I shot a prayer, and it went in. This is the Garden, and it was my first time here. It feels great. I'm a little overwhelmed right now.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Prayer is the voice of faith.

You are Merciful, the Destroyer of all pain. Please give me Your Ear and listen to my prayer.

We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God's reluctance, but as laying hold of His highest willingness.

You have guys who give scouting reports. His were kind of animated at times, but they were straight to the point. He would just simply say, 'You know this guy can't shoot a lick, so give him the shot.' He was straight to the point about what guys could do on the floor. We all miss him he was a big part of our team. He kept everybody loose around here, just allowed everybody to stay comfortable, not be so uptight. He's still with us, and we're with him in our prayers.

His prayers are full of false hypocrisy;
Ours of true zeal and deep integrity.

To Him is due the true prayer and those whom they pray to besides Allah give them no answer, but (they are) like one who stretches forth his two hands towards water that it may reach his mouth, but it will not reach it and the prayer of the unbelie.

Karl Barth, the 20th-century theologian who pounded home the theme of God's sovereignty, saw no contradiction at all in a God who chooses to let prayers affect him. He is not deaf, he listens more than that, he acts. He does not act in the same way whether we pray or not. Prayer exerts an influence upon God's action, even upon his existence. That is what the word 'answer' means. ... The fact that God yields to man's petitions, changing his intentions in response to man's prayer, is not a sign of weakness. He himself, in the glory of his majesty and power, has so willed it.

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

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

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.