Monday, June 15, 2009

GREAT PRAYER QUOTES - 10

Prayer begins where human capacity ends. - Marian Anderson

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. - Frank R. Wolf

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind. - Boyd Rice

My longing for truth was a single prayer. - Edith Stein

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. - Toby Keith

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. - Johannes Tauler

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. - William Gurnall

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. - Jane Elliot

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

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. - William Wilberforce

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. - Andre Gide

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. - Bob Schaffer

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. - Mary Antin

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. - Mark Hopkins

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. - Mother Maribel

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. - Terry Prachett

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. - Armstrong Williams

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. - Mary Austin

Poetry and prayer are very similar. - Carol Ann Duffy

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. - Austin O'Malley

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will. - Frederick William Robertson



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