Les Aspin Quotes

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overpowering conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day

Lord help me to begin to begin.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

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

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.

Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.