School Prayer Quotes

#1. The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Jon Meacham

#2. The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

Al Sharpton

#3. 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

#4. People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment ... What kind of prayer would we use?

Cal Thomas

#5. We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

Ronald Reagan

#6. Republicans are all about Old Glory and school prayer and the sanctity of marriage and the Fatherhood of God but when it comes to actually needing help from them, you shouldn't get your hopes up. They might send an ambulance or they might just send a Get Well card.

Garrison Keillor

#7. Many times I have been driven to prayer. When I was in Bible school I didn't know what to do with my life. I used to walk the streets ... and pray, sometimes for hours at a time. In His timing, God answered those prayers, and since then prayer has been an essential part of my life.

Billy Graham

#8. A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.

Doug Larson

#9. And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

Kinky Friedman

#10. Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

Dwight L. Moody

#11. Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.

George Carlin

#12. Some want prayer in school, some want condoms.
Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.

Marshall Fritz

#13. I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Florence King

#14. I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Francis W. Newman

#15. Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous. And then he called for prayers in the schools and an end to gun control.

Jay Leno

#16. I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

J. Michael Straczynski

#17. As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Cokie Roberts

#18. Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

C.J. Mahaney

#19. If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day ... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?

Jim Webb

#20. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

Red Skelton

#21. Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

Rafael Cruz

#22. The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

Pope Francis

#23. [The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

Joyce Meyer

#24. Becoming a footballer is only the first half of the silent prayer a kid offers up to the sky or confides to his teacher in a primary school essay. The second part is the name of the team he wants to play for.

Andrea Pirlo

#25. Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer. You know, i know you're not supposed to say this about elected officials, but I would pay to see Rick Perry defend himself against a school shooter with prayer.

Bill Maher

#26. I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

Ronald Reagan

#27. If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.

Walter J Chantry

#28. The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#29. School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

Simone Weil

#30. I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

Kinky Friedman

#31. If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Boyd K. Packer

#32. It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

Jeff Cooper

#33. In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#34. For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives.

Brennan Manning

#35. 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

#36. He would have given anything for a tension-breaker-maybe, if he prayed hard enough, the school would catch on fire or something.

Christian M. Frank

#37. Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

Rush Limbaugh

#38. Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

Pico Iyer

#39. My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

Steve Harvey

#40. I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. Prayer, in essence, is conversation with God. You can talk to Him about anything and everything - He loves to hear from His children. Praise Him for His incredible love, tell Him why you love your favorite song, ask Him for help with problems at home, work or school and thank Him for His responses.

Teresa Santoski

#42. Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

Garry Wills

#43. We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

Richard J. Foster