~ It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. ~
~ Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead. ~
~ Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things. ~
~ Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~
~ Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ~
~ If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice ~
~ Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere ~
~ If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough. ~
~ Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ~
~ Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind ~
~ Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. ~
~ Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful ~