“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.”

~Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”

~Mother Theresa

“There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be.  Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer…What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.”

~Mother Theresa

“The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.”

~William James

“Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Prayer begins where human capacity ends.”

~Marian Anderson (1897 - 1993)

“We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not but are deluded by self-sufficiency.”

~Harold Cooke Phillips

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.   It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

~Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

“God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.”

~John Wesley

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”

~Corrie Ten Boom

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

~Helen Keller

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your task.”

~Phillips Brooks

“I have been driven many times to my knees, by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

~Abraham Lincoln

“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world; at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.”

~John Owen