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“Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service performed all precede that goal of eternal life.”
Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a city to be built, the plan of which we carry in our heads, in our hearts. Countless generations have already toiled at the building of it. The effort to aid in completing it, with us, takes the place of prayer. In this sense we say, "Laborare est orare.”
Felix Adler (1851–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.”
Edward McKendree Bounds (1835–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O harp and altar, of the fury fused, (How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!) Terrific threshold of the prophet’s pledge, Prayer of pariah, and the lover’s cry,”
Hart Crane (1899–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now the sun touched the horizon and the man reined in his horse tiredly, glad that the time for prayer had come.”
James Clavell (1921–1994) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Whirlwind (1986)
“Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: A section of my people will not cease fighting for the Truth and will prevail till the Day of Resurrection. He said: Jesus son of Mary would then descend and their (Muslims') commander would invite him to come and lead them in prayer, but he would say: "No, some amongst you are commanders over some (amongst you). This is the honour from Allah for this Ummah.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’ve digitized the revelations — does our rehearsed recitation go any deeper than our throats? Our calls to prayer they seem to rise up to the skies, conferences and lectures, seminars for you and I. The words that blow away with the nasheed that make us cry, yet why are the drums so silent?”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My intention is to use music as a tool for social change. It is always a prayer of mine that the work I produce will help, in some small way, to better the world or provide others with hope in themselves or trust in The Creator’s mercy to us all.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must be in much prayer for guidance.”
F. B. Meyer (1847–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To know what it is to look at things, life as a prayer, a mass, a celebration.”
Patrick Swift (1927–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?”
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 467.
“If you only utter a single prayer in this life let it be Thanks, with all your heart”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“52. The state of prayer can be aptly described as a habitual state of imperturbable calm. It snatches to the heights of intelligible reality the spirit which loves wisdom and which is truly spiritualized by the most intense love.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“70. You will not be able to pray purely if you are all involved with material affairs and agitated with unremitting concerns. For prayer is the rejection of concepts.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“83. The singing of Psalms quiets the passions and calms the intemperance of the body. Prayer, on the other hand, prepares the spirit to put its own powers into operation.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“85. Psalm-singing is an image of wisdom which is many-sided; prayer is the prelude to immaterial and uniform knowledge.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“86. Knowledge! The great possession of man. It is a fellow-worker with prayer, acting to awaken the power of thought to contemplate the divine knowledge.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“101. Just as bread is nourishment for the body and virtue for the soul, so is spiritual prayer nourishment for the intelligence.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“114. Do not by any means strive to fashion some image or visualize some form at the time of prayer.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“117. Let me repeat this saying of mine that I once expressed on some other occasions: Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“119. Happy is the spirit that becomes free of all matter and is stripped of all at the time of prayer.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“120. Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“150. Just as sight is the most worthy of the sense, so also is prayer the most divine of the virtues.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“6. The pure mind is an incense burner at the time of prayer when it touches upon no sensible object. According to virtue we will be one on the eighth day; according to knowledge, on the last day.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“26. Prayer is a state of the mind destructive of every earthly mental representation.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“27. Prayer is a state of the mind that arises under the influence of the unique light of the Holy Trinity.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The supreme task before the people of the United States today is the Americanizing and, above all, the Christianizing of the great cities of the country. ...It calls for consecrated leadership and prayer of the intensest sort.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Disciples of Christ and the City" World Call 1 (July, 1919)
“When the Lord's Prayer is prayed with insight it becomes a petition for the abolition of capitalism and the supplanting of the existing economic order with a society which is consistent with the religion of Jesus.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Clifford and his colleagues could have a field day. I don't give Cork a prayer against Kerry.”
Pat Spillane (born 1955) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Headline of Spillane's preview of the 2020 Munster Senior Football Championship meeting between the counties. Cork won and knocked Kerry out of the Sam Maguire Cup, in a year when no qualifiers for the All-Ireland Senio…
“True prayer requires no word, no chant no gesture, no sound. It is communion, calm and still with our own godly Ground”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.”
Kameron Hurley (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The last reflection of the Stoic philosophy that I have observed is in Simplicius' "Commentary on the Enchiridion of Epictetus." Simplicius was not a Christian, and such a man was not likely to be converted at a time when Christianity was grossly corrupted. But he was a really religious man, and he concludes his commentary with a prayer to the Deity which no Christian could improve.”
George Long (scholar) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Monra recited this prayer with an unsteady voice. His eyes flowed with hot tears that trickled down his thin and drawn cheeks. They wet his hoary beard, as he raised his aged head, looking with emotion upon the pallid face of his wife, confined to her childbed.”
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A ladder is the instrument of ascent; it symbolises intensity rising to a climax. this, too, is the meaning of prayer.”
Elie Munk (1900–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religious practice is costly in terms of material sacrifice (at least one's prayer time), emotional expenditure (inciting fears and hopes), and cognitive effort (maintaining both factual and counterintuitive networks of beliefs).”
Scott Atran (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tell you they are," rejoined Elder Rigdon, "and no man or woman shall put up a prayer in this place to-day.”
Lucy Mack Smith (1775–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I play music, that is my best yoga, the best meditation, the best prayer.”
Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From me you fly! Ah! let me crave, By these poor tears, that hand you gave— Since, parting with my woman's pride, My madness leaves me nought beside— By that our wedlock, by the rite Which, but begun, could yet unite, If e'er my kindness held you bound, If e'er in me your joy you found, Look on this falling house, and still, If prayer can touch you, change your will.”
John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No longer dream that human prayer The will of Fate can overbear.”
John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.”
John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never interested in impressive edifices, Irish monks preferred to spend their time in study, prayer, farming—and, of course, copying. ...a little hut for each monk... a refectory and kitchen; a scriptorium and library; a smithy, a kiln, a mill, and a couple of barns; a modest church—and they were in business.”
Thomas Cahill (1940–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even the special appurtenances of Christian monasticism—silence, meditation, chanting, distinctive costumes, beads, incense, kneeling, hands raised in prayer—all too likely go back to the Pythagoreans and beyond them to their influences, the Indian Buddhists and their predecessors.”
Thomas Cahill (1940–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have only love, to offer as a prayer, for all the wrongs in the world. So... like singing troubadours we’ll go, singing love wherever we go.”
Rod McKuen (1933–2015) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Only Love" by Jacques Brel as translated on the album After Midnight (1988)
“We take notice of all feasts, and the almanack is part of the common law, the calendar being established by Act of Parliament, and it is published before the Common-prayer Book.”
John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) first seen 1703 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brough v. Parkings (1703), 2 Raym. 994; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 92.
“Their argument was that no one comes here to sit with prayer beads, they all have ambitions and if they are not fulfilled, they go away.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To him, the one Absolute Conscience, in every moral disaster our conscience turns for assured refuge and certain renewal of moral courage and strength. That is the real act and infallible function of Prayer.”
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source