Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

A babe in the house is a well spring of pleasure a messenger of peace and love a resting place for innocence on earth a link between angels and men.

As frost to the bud and blight to the blossom even such is self interest to friendship for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth but that which hatred swelleth is keen to carve out evil.

Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazel wand of chance.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than

Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread;

A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

A babe in the house is a wellspring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

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

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

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.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

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

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.