Jonathan Sacks Quotes

If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.

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

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.

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

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

I would like to ask you a question: how many of you pray to the Holy Spirit every day? Probably few, but we must satisfy this desire of Jesus and pray every day to the Holy Spirit, so that he opens our heart towards Jesus.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

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.

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love