Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the priest or whoever the religious leader is. And that's what surprises me, that some people who find a huge value in these kinds of systems also seem to enjoy ILLUSIONS. I can't figure it out.

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.

We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God