Quotes About Prayer

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

Some kneel and lie to God.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!