Boyd K. Packer Quotes

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Boyd K. Packer

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• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

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

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Most

• Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Lips

• Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Progress

• Let us pray...Oh, uh, please don't feel like you can't participate if you're not Christian, because this is a prayer for all faiths...

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Truth

• Maybe baby I'll have you,Maybe baby you'll be true.Maybe baby I'll have you for me. (All for me)It's funny honey you don't care-a-are,You never listen to my prayer-a-yer,Maybe baby you will love me someday (someday).

  

  Buddy Holly
  • True
  • Funny
  • Prayer

• I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Mother
  • Prayer

• Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • May
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • People
  • World
  • Prayer

• I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Faith
  • Prayer
  • Search

• Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Strong
  • Church
  • Christian

• Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Slavery

• God-honoring prayers are not simply shopping lists. They are more than cries for help, strength, mercy and miracles. Authentic prayer should include worship, submission, requests, and confessions.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Help
  • Prayer

• Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • May
  • Earth

• Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Simple
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • People
  • Great

• Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss

• Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Satan

• Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Technology
  • Iran
  • Nuclear

• It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

  

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • May
  • Free
  • Suffering

• If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Prayer
  • Ridicule
  • Public Schools