| "If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths." »Alexis Carrel |
| "Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered." »George Meredith |
| "The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless." »William Franklin Billy Graham |
| "To saints their very slumber is a prayer." »Saint Jerome |
| "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." »Johannes Meister Eckhart |
| "The fewer the words, the better the prayer." »Martin Luther |
| "If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice." »Meister Eckhart |
| "prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard |
| "For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God." »Saint Teresa of Avila |
| "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." »Mark Twain |
| "prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living." »Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| "prayer is .... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him." »Unknown |
| "There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing." »Herbert Clark Hoover |
| "One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer." »G. E. Lessing |
| "prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand." »Hippocrates |
| "prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon." »Martin Luther |
| "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| "We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place." »Ronald Reagan |
| "prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God." »John Bunyan |
| "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." »Voltaire |
| "prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God." »Ambrose of Milan |
| "Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)" »L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. |
| "Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels." »Thomas John Watson, Sr. |
| "Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer." »John Denver |
| "For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go" »Laurence Hope |
| "I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life." »Malcolm Boyd |
| "Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's prayer comprises but 67." »Norman R. Augustine |
| "The Lord's prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." »David McIntosh |
| "Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved." »Augusta E. Rundell |
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