Quotes About Prayer

My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.

I believe in prayer. I pray every night.

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.

When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind of Heavenly Father being far away. As I have matured, my experience with prayer has changed. The picture in my mind has become one of a Heavenly Father who is close by, who is bathed in a bright light, and who knows me perfectly.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

I love prayer candles, and I use them often.

I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.

We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.

It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.