“No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn’t have a prayer.”
— Jane Elliot
“The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion – others pray in church. It’s a banality, but you don’t possess art, it possesses you. It’s like falling in love.”
— Francois Pinault
“Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.”
— Ellen G. White
“Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.”
— E. Stanley Jones
“To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
— Martin Luther
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God’s Book of Life.”
— Jonathan Sacks
“For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one – reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new – that’s my prayer.”
— Sonu Nigam
“True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.”
— Mary Baker Eddy
“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.”
— Christopher Love
“My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.”
— Cory Booker
“I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.”
— Mos Def
“I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.”
— Tyson Fury
“Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.”
— Joe Murray
“The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.”
— Catherine Hicks
“I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.”
— Andra Day
“The time I spend in the morning – praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list – is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I’m doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.”
— Kristin Armstrong
“Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.”
— Carrie Underwood
“God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.”
— Mr. T
“Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.”
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
“You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk to yourself and what you say morning, noon and night about what you want to happen in your life. Some folks call that creative visualization. Other people call it prayer. But it is about that message that you send out there to yourself.”
— Al Jarreau
“About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it’s a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I’m doing better at that, but I’ve got a long way to go.”
— Max Lucado
“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We’re all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn’t understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.”
— Sean Durkin
“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‘Hey, I did my religious duty.’ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.”
— Joel Osteen
“Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.”
— Henry B. Eyring
“Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
— Mother Teresa
“Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.”
— David Wilkerson