Top 100 Prayer Religion Quotes
#1. Through prayer, religion insists, things which cannot be realized in any other manner come about: energy which but for prayer would be bound is by prayer set free and operates in some part, be it objective or subjective, of the world of facts.
William James
#2. I am all for getting Prayer/Religion back into the schools. And while we're at it we should get more Science/Physics into the church ...
George Martin
#4. Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering of mantra, closing one's eyes; Meditation.
Aporva Kala
#5. An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.
Aporva Kala
#6. When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#7. Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer
Neal Pirolo
#8. Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Karl Rahner
#9. Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation.
Ray Simpson
#10. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#11. We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come ...
Isobel Miller Kuhn
#12. I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth.
Bob Dylan
#13. A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer
Erin Bowman
#14. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James Duncan
#15. True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.
Geoffrey Wood
#16. I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.
Emily Dickinson
#17. Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.
Peter Forsyth
#18. Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather consist in the inner beliefs and convictions which they carry along with them and which give their followers a distinctive character and way of life.
Kedar Nath Tiwari
#20. Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.
Idries Shah
#22. When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
Karl Rahner
#23. The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
Teresa Of Avila
#24. We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
Victor Hugo
#25. For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
Jim Elliot
#29. I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.
Banani Ray
#30. He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
John Calvin
#31. Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
Dora Russell
#33. Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional - the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
Geoffrey Wood
#34. Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.
Evelyn Underhill
#36. Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Thomas Aquinas
#37. Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.
Octavia E. Butler
#38. Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#39. We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#40. There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.
Steve Allen
#42. If you have to pray and sacrifice an animal to purify your heart, that is not a prayer. That is pure hatred.
Debasish Mridha
#43. The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
Willa Cather
#44. The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.
John Baillie
#45. An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#46. Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.
Augustine Of Hippo
#47. Teaching:
One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.
Saying of the Prophet
Idries Shah
#48. Praying because you're afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and still feel scared, it's whether you're not praying right or not praying at all.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#49. The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Arthur Wellesley
#50. Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do.
Diana Butler Bass
#52. One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
Zoroaster
#53. Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.
David Mitchell
#54. It was fear that first made the gods25 - fear of hidden forces in the earth, rivers, oceans, trees, winds, and sky. Religion became the propitiatory worship of these forces through offerings, sacrifice, incantation, and prayer.
Will Durant
#55. When kindness is your religion, then caring is your prayer.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Did they know that he stood on the bow every morning, noon, and night for an hour ... this prayer of thanks to a God more a God than any to be found in book-bound, altar-bound Religion?
Jack Kerouac
#60. Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film Sophie Scholl
Sophie Scholl
#61. Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau
#62. The one concern of the Devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
#65. Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.
John Mott
#66. O God - please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
John Irving
#67. As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. We could all use the power of prayer now and then, but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.
Mark Abramson
#71. Make your life a prayer. Live your mediation.
Reba Riley
#74. The Lord will deliver us from every chain of sin, slavery and bondage.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. Even when there were no more options for the body, the heart's wishes find a way out, and as with all warmth, love rises. Besides, the will to fly was in the nature of the soul, so its home had to be up above
J.R. Ward
#84. Can I ask you, what is your relationship to God?"
"Limited," I say. "Limited with the exception of spontaneous prayer in times of distress.
A.M. Homes
#85. Love is my religion, kindness is my prayer, forgiveness is my temple, and peace is my abode.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required.
Stephen Richards
#90. I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
Ravi Zacharias
#91. In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
David Herbert Donald
#93. 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
#94. God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
Philip Yancey
#95. It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#96. Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Michael Shermer
#97. The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.
C.S. Lewis
#98. The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.
Agona Apell
#100. A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.
Sam Ervin
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