Prayer Quotes
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life
Jonathan Edwards
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
Gerald Vann
From the back label of a Cline Zin: Zin Prayer "Know me, stranger, For I am thy life blood and thy nectar. I shall wet thy lips, parched by the winds of deprivation. And nourished shall be thy body, dessicated by the scorching inferno of temperance. Rest thy head upon my bosom, Lose thyself in the ecstasy of my caresses, And know me, For I am ZINFANDEL
Doug Brown
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
William McGill
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
Herman Melville
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."
Ivan Turgenev
