Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes “Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.”

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

May God help Russia.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

In the performance of our responsibilities, I have learned that when we heed a silent prompting and act upon it without delay, our Heavenly Father will guide our footsteps and bless our lives and the lives of others. I know of no experience more sweet or feelings more precious than to heed a prompting, only to discover that the Lord has answered another's prayer through you.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

God will facilitate, but He will not force.

God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.