Cat Stevens Quotes

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

I know there are millions of people praying for me, and I strongly believe in prayers.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

I pray daily... for peace.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

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

I had a drinking problem. Right now I should be in a bar in Texas, not the Oval Office. There is only one reason that I am in the Oval Office and not in a bar. I found faith. I found God. I am here because of the power of prayer.

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

I think prayer is one of the greatest healers around, more than medication.

I was incarcerated for a little while in Baltimore, and my celly was Muslim. I was watching him pray every day, and his outlook on getting out of that situation was a lot more positive than the other dudes that were Muslim in the jail.

I pray quite a bit, actually. And even if you don't believe in prayer, just have a go. Pray for a good day, or just pray for your friend, or whatever it might be. And it's amazing, man, 'cause it absolutely works. I guarantee, it genuinely does work.

I have a lot of lovely things in my life that I wasn't able to have before I got healed from my imbalanced life.

Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.

Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.

Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.

As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.