A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Will Rogers

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
Dean Inge

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie Ten Boom

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
George MacDonald

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
Nick Rahall

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
Cokie Roberts

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
Arthur Middleton

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Frank Sinatra

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.
Woodrow Wilson

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
Paul Laurence Dunbar

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Malcolm Boyd

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
E. Stanley Jones