Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

I'm a very religious person.

My father was very outwardly religious.

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.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

I speak to God every day.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

I listen and talk to God daily.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

I pray as much as possible.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

No praying, it spoils business.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.