Quotes About Prayer For Our Country

#1. The failure of the citizens to pray for the country, will lead to its downfall.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Frankly, if her face wasn't so cute, I would most certainly have been punching it.

Wataru Watari

#3. At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can't imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.

Franklin Graham

#4. We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short ... of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.

George H. W. Bush

#5. I'm not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.

Jimmy Carter

#6. Just like his daddy, but his daddy wants Red to be different from him. Isn't that always how it is?

Anne Tyler

#7. With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

Lewis Black

#9. A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Edward Everett Hale

#11. My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.

John Wayne

#12. hope my country will never become an uncomfortable place for the unbeliever, as it could easily become if prayer was made one of the requirements of the accredited citizen.

E.B. White

#13. Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

Harry Carpenter

#14. Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.

Chris Crutcher

#15. Tried to teach him The Lord's Prayer once." His eyes traveled out beyond the hut for a moment, toward the gritty, featureless hardpan. "Guess this ain't Lord's Prayer country.

Stephen King

#16. The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

James Monroe

#17. The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

#18. I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

Rumi

#19. O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Robert Burns

#20. The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer
prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

George W. Bush

#21. No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in praying for our President, all of our elected leaders, and even for this unjust judge and all those who rule from the bench - that God would guide them and give them wisdom.

Franklin Graham

#22. I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

Erica Bauermeister

#24. I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Angela Carter

#25. When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Tim Fargo

#27. It is a bipartisan gathering to be able to pray for the needs back in our districts, for our families and each other. Another thing the prayer caucus does is to address religious liberty issues around the country as they arise.

James Lankford

#28. Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.

Mike Huckabee

#29. Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

Harry Chapin

#30. In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

Gloria Gaither

#31. I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.

Franklin Graham

#32. My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country
instead of dying for it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#33. When I said I would be the judge of your worth, I did not mean that I owned your life, Rowan Jun.
Garyn Kei

Tamara Henson

#34. I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Mark Twain

#35. Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.

Srda Trifkovic

#36. With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#37. It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

Will Rogers

#38. Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

Nick Rahall

#39. Intercession is prayer we pray not for ourselves, but for others - for country government, or any other person

Sunday Adelaja

#40. There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#41. Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.

Dan Barker

#42. I am like a table
that eats its own legs off
because it's fallen
in love with the floor.

Cate Marvin