"God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh 
us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies grey and threatening; when our 
lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their
courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; 
tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of 
every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all 
who journey with us on the road of life, to Your honour and glory."

Augustine
"To fold your hands in prayer is to begin an uprising against the world."
Karl Barth
"The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this or that danger. The last and highest result of prayer is the knowledge of God -- the knowledge which is eternal life -- and by that knowledge, the transformation of human character, and of the world."

George John Blewett

"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."

John Bunyan

"You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed."

John Bunyan

"Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer."

John Calvin

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."

John Calvin

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."

Meister Eckhart

"There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him."

William Law
"No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance."

Robert E. Lee

"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me...."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813-1843)

"The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear:  That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer."

Ronald Reagan

"While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God.  When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance.  When the harvest was bountiful, the first thought was thanksgiving to God.  Prayer is today as powerful a force in our nation as it has ever been.  We as a nation should never forget this source of strength."

Ronald Reagan

"The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war."

Theodore Roosevelt

"The people of true prayer are those who can see the answer when it is given in God's way, 
not theirs."

Helen Shoemaker
"Prayer is the creation of a circle of activity: God creates out of divine love; divine love invites us in, not as disinterested observers, but as sharers in that very love.  But to share in God's love is to share in God's work.  Through prayer, then, we are graciously made participants in God's own works of grace."

Marjorie Suchocki

"O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit.... Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of thy Son Jesus Christ.... Thou gavest thy Son to die for me, and hast given me assurance of salvation...."

George Washington

"And now, Almighty Father, if it is Thy holy will that we shall obtain a place and name among the nations of the earth, grant that we may be enabled to show our gratitude for Thy goodness by our endeavors to fear and obey Thee.  Bless us with thy wisdom in our counsels, success in battle, and let our victories be tempered with humanity.  Endow, also, our enemies with enlightened minds, that they become sensible of their injustice, and willing to restore our liberty and peace.  Grant the petition of Thy servant, for the sake of whom Thou hast called Thy beloved Son; nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done."

George Washington

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