“Prayer is not itself powerful”— Related Quotes “I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.”— Hélène Cixous “Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.”– E. Stanley Jones “Prayer opens the window of heaven.”— Lailah Gifty Akita