Roger Ebert Quotes

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

My mother's prayers protect me. Negativity, nothing reaches me.

Take away the Big Bang and what has God done? Burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great, he's a high school junior.

If you're really thinking prayer can stop rockets or bullets, you have to ask why some people do get hit by rockets or bullets. Are they people who no one prayed for? Are they people who God just didn't like? I don't think so.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.

If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?

I believe with faith all is possible. An answer to prayer is greatest positive feedback you can get.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word.

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

It is a really good question. The other day I was praying over something as I was running, and I ended up saying to God, ‘Look, this is all very well, but isn’t it about time you did something, if you’re there?’ Which is probably not what the archbishop of Canterbury should say.

Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.