Quotes About Prayer

The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

Whether you're praying, meditating, you're getting silent, relaxing your mind... and you definitely want to train hard - in the weight room, on the track. You need to do all of it.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was, 'God, let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother.' I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

Usually, before I salute the judge, I'm able to just grab the event, and I pray on it, and that really grounds me. For some reason, once I do that, I am able to think clearly, and I'm able to calm down right before I compete.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

I just pray to God and make sure I'm good with God.

I'm not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.

Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.

For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.

He who labours, prays.

Gay folks go to church. We pray to the Lord too.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.