All Quotes

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
‐‐ Francis of Assisi

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
‐‐ Paul Eldridge

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
‐‐ Phil Donahue

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
‐‐ Grace Slick

Praxeology - economics - provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

Pray, and let God worry.
‐‐ Martin Luther

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
‐‐ Jerry Reed

Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
‐‐ Mother Jones

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.
‐‐ Jane Grey

Pray in faith.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
‐‐ Christopher Love

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

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

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
‐‐ Ignatius of Antioch

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
‐‐ Ramakrishna

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
‐‐ George Santayana

Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.
‐‐ James Dobson

Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
‐‐ Marian Anderson

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
‐‐ Adam Savage

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.
‐‐ Robert McAfee Brown

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
‐‐ Jacques Ellul

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
‐‐ Phil Klay

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.
‐‐ Dayananda Saraswati

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
‐‐ Hippocrates

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
‐‐ Martin Luther

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
‐‐ Ernest Holmes

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
‐‐ Jonathan Edwards