Solemn Prayer Quotes

#1. If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

Terence McKenna

#3. Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

Evelyn Underhill

#4. To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

Ole Hallesby

#5. In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

Louisa May Alcott

#6. But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.

Tera Lynn Childs

#7. The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#8. It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

Amy Carmichael

#9. Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Richard Lamm

#10. Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

Samuel Beckett

#11. Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#12. When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

Steven Soderbergh

#13. Silence is a still noise.

Josh Billings

#14. Starting the Day - Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

Carew Papritz

#15. If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Douglas Adams

#16. Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts,

David Weber

#17. By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Thomas A Kempis

#18. Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself.

Annie Hughes

#19. Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from the standin' still and tryin' tuh laugh. But you come 'long and made somethin' outa me. So Ah'm thankful fuh anything we come through together." "Thanky, Ma'am.

Zora Neale Hurston