I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and….

The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure ….

We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening,….

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer..

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS..

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers..

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and a….

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we sh….

My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the Great Creator silently, daily, and of….

The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believ….

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organiz….

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He kno….

You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled pe….

Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused..

One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget tha….

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give b….

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer..

Transform your sex into love, and transform your love into prayer.

Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it ….

So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who ….

I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me..