Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.

Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.

My favorite prayer is thank you. Most people are asking for things and not doing their part.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.

I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the center of your heart filled with love.

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

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

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

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

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