My father was an Episcopalian minister and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

Business underlies everything in our national life including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books but to go to God in prayer and obtain divine teaching.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude humility understanding.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.

Part of the beauty of Judaism and surely this is so for other faiths also is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Old hands soil it seems whatever they caress but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body the soul is on its knees.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.