Quotes on Prayer

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Author: Marian Anderson

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Author: Charles Bent

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Author: Phillips Brooks

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

Author: Mitch Daniels

I'm for prayer in schools.

Author: Charles Evers

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Author: Jeff Gordon

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Author: Billy Graham

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.

Author: Victor Hugo

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Author: Thomas Kempis

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

Author: Sam Levenson

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Author: Martin Luther

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

Author: Zell Miller

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Author: Karl Moritz

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Author: Austin O'Malley

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Author: Cokie Roberts

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

Author: Al Sharpton

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

Author: Michael Smith

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Author: Laurence Sterne

Prayer is mans greatest power!

Author: W. Stone

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Author: Johannes Tauler

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Author: Martin Tupper

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.

Author: Henry Wilson