Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Music tells no truths.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Kindness is wisdom.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Joys Are bubble like what makes them bursts them too.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

It matters not how long we live but how.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

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.