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He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains.

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

Ford is such an answered prayer and an absolute blessing.

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.

Dear children in Jesus Christ, prayer is absolutely necessary.

St. Thomas is right. The essential prayer is the prayer of petition.

Our dear Lord said we should pray always. Everything we are doing should be either a prayer in itself or can be made into a prayer. Any action that is not in itself wrong can be done in union with God and His divine will.

Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

God hears a mother's prayer.

Before I go and even get in an airplane to go on a flight, I say a prayer, and I always think about my family.

As a non believer I don't get the idea of asking god for things via prayer.

I had people having prayer circles for me at the age of 10.

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.

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

I think that's a struggle of every Christian, to be able to get to that point where they're in constant prayer with God - so that everything they do, in thought, in speech, in work, is praising God and worshipping God.