If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

- Anne Graham Lotz

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

- Arthur Wellesley

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

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.

- Andrae Crouch

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

- Alex Grey

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

- Armstrong Williams

I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

- Alana Stewart

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

- Adoniram Judson

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

- Adam Clarke

I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.

- Anne Graham Lotz

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

- Alice McDermott

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

- Alice McDermott

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

- Adam Hamilton

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

- Austin O'Malley

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

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

- Andre Gide

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

- Alicia Keys

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

- Al Sharpton

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

- Abraham Lincoln