EVERYDAY SPIRITUALITY - 29 Prayer Quotes to Enjoy on any Day

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I do not subscribe to any religion since my rebellious streak raises its ugly head when anyone tells me what to do or how to do it. Prayers however are a different story once I understood that they have nothing to do with organized religion.

If it wasn't for my constant communication with the powers that be in the Universe, I wouldn't be here today. They say that prayer is talking to god and meditation is listening for the answer. So in that vein, here are 29 prayer quotes to enjoy on any day.

1- Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~Satchel Paige,

2- Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Samuel M. Shoemaker

3- Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~Author Unknown

4- I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ~Frederick Douglass, escaped slave

5- Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ~Austin O'Malley

6- As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown

7- When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. ~Jane Wagner, In Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985

8- Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert

9- Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown

10- The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. ~Frederick Denison Maurice

11- I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime. ~Henry Ward Beecher

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

13- If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

14- The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. ~Will Rogers

15- To be present is to be prayerful. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

16- Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. ~Oscar Wilde

17- It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. ~Henry Ward Beecher

18- Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862

19- Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ~Jonathan Swift

20- I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. ~Abraham Lincoln

21- Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

22- I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

23- When it's a glorious day I pray and it's a glorious day when I pray ~Terri Guillemets

24- When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. ~Morihei Ueshiba

25- Most people do not pray; they only beg. ~George Bernard Shaw

26- To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ~Victor Hugo

27- Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. ~Ruth Graham

28- Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ~Philip James Bailey

29- Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb