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Quotes About Belief

The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.
~ Martin Luther
Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
~ Hippocrates
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm "O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
~ Michel de Montaigne
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
When life knocks you to your knees and it will why get up! If it knocks you to your knees again as it will well isn't that the best position from which to pray?
~ Ethel Barrymore
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
~ Mark Twain
Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
~ Bible
Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.
~ Peter Bowman
What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
~ Anonymous
Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.
~ Thomas B. Brooks
Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
~ William Gurnall
And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday…
~ Bone Thugs and Harmony
Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.
~ John Aikman Wallace
Prayer changes things.
~ Anonymous
There is no hope but in prayer.
~ Andrew Bonar
To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.
~ Sandra L. Douglas
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil not that he practices it but he suffers from it.
~ Guy H. King
If we ask anything according to his will he heareth us.
~ Bible
I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
~ Madame Chiang Kai-Shek