Prayer quotes

“No key. It's common time. It's growing, gaining strength. Then the struggle. Pulled down. Half notes. And then, a voice, a single frail voice emerges, soaring above the sound. The striving continues, moving below the surface. And then, God answers. We're raised up into heaven. Cello remains earthbound, but the other voices soar suspended, for an...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“- Captain Stefan Svevo: I hope you are a religilous man, Captain. I've taken the liberty of saying a small prayer for us.
- Captain Mike Turner: All of us?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Well, it is my feeling that... from this time on, our faiths are necessarily intertwined.
- Captain Mike Turner: Good. Then you won't be offended if I remind you of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Telly Savalas - Captain Stefan Svevo
Sir Michael Caine - Captain Mike Turner

“When I pray to God, I don't ask him to eradicate disease. I pray that he sends me something that I haven't seen. I'm half kidding.”
David Duchovny - Dr. Eugene Sands

“Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me...
[begins crying]
Show me the way... show me the way.”
James Stewart - George Bailey

“- Harry: I know how hard you've been praying; and now God is answering your prayers.
- Jack Lewis: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.”
Michael Denison - Harry Harrington
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Jack Lewis

“I forgot the other boy. Oh, what's his name? Oh, well, God bless What's-his-name.”

Julie Andrews - Maria

“We give thanks to you, Semos, for the fruit of the land. Bless us, holy father, who created all apes in his image. Hasten the day when you will return and bring peace to your children. Amen.”
Michael Clarke Duncan - Attar

“And now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take.”
Heather Langenkamp - Nancy Thompson

I asked the Lord, "Lord, why have you forsaken me?". But there was silence. So , I asked again, "Lord, why have you forsaken me?", and there was silence. So I asked again, "Lord, why have you forsaken me?"... and this great booming voice said "Geez, I don't know Travis, I guess something about you just chaps at my ass."
Dennis Quaid - Travis Child

“- Herger - Joyous: We shall pray for your safe return!
- Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: Pray to whom?
- Herger - Joyous: In your land one God may be enough, but here we have need of many. I will pray to all of them for you. Do not be offended!
- Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: I'll be in your debt!”
Dennis Storhøi - Herger - Joyous
Antonio Banderas - Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan

“- Willy: What is she doin'?
- Joey: Oh, my God. She's prayin'.
- Deloris: Lord, I want you to forgive Willy and Joey, because they know not what they do. They're only doin' what Vince told 'em to do, because Vince is too chicken to do it himself! So he's called upon these two men to take care of his business! So I want you to forgive them, Lord.”

Richard Portnow - Willy
Robert Miranda - Joey
Whoopi Goldberg - Deloris

“Well, you'll certainly be in my prayers tonight. And I'll be praying you get nut cancer!”
Swoosie Kurtz - Mrs. Livingston

“- Elmer Fishpaw: What the hell are you doing?
- Francine Fishpaw: Saying my prayers. Asking God to forgive you for showing dirty movies!
- Elmer Fishpaw: Oh, I don't believe this! I gotta' goddamned nun for a wife!”
David Samson - Elmer Fishpaw
Divine - Francine Fishpaw

“You have any idea how it feels to go blind and still be afraid of the dark? And every day, you stand and pray just for a little light, and you don't get nothing. Cause God don't listen to people like me.”
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles

“Lord in Heaven, sorry for all the bad shit I've done, all the people I've trampled on, I hope they forgive me, I won't do it again, that's for sure.”
Harry Dean Stanton - Toot-Toot

“Lord, help me. Just let me know you're there. Love me, hate me, but let me know You're up there.”
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

“Oh, God. This I did not intend. I saw a light but did not know where it was headed. I have tresspassed on your domain. I've gone further than man should go. Forgive me.”
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“Ancestors, hear my plea: help me not to make a fool of me, and to not uproot my family tree. Keep my father standing tall.”

Lea Salonga - Mulan

“- Harold: Do you pray?
- Maude: Pray? No. I communicate.
- Harold: With God?
- Maude: With life.”
Bud Cort - Harold
Ruth Gordon - Maude

“Let me tell you one thing from one saint to another. You should keep right on praying. Wear your knees out that way for a change!”

Sharon Stone - Nicole Horner

“Superheroes that pray together stay together.”

Trey Parker - Joe Young

“- Bobby 'Bob' Blane: Sometimes adrenaline gives people the shakes, some might think it's cowardice, so maybe you'd want to pray about it.
- Jimmy Silk: I'm not a religious man.
- Bobby 'Bob' Blane: There's nothing wrong with prayer. We knew this firefighter, this trooper, who always caried a bible next to his heart. We used to mock him, but that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Delroy Lindo - Bobby 'Bob' Blane
Sam Rockwell - Jimmy Silk

“To the boys who fished me out of the river and saved my life, and to the nurses and doctors here who are taking such excellent care of me, and for the thousands of letters and prayers I've received from all across America, thank you.”

Ashley Judd - Dr. Kate McTiernan

“- Hannah Wald: I'm sorry, can someone else please run the board? It's creepy, it's wrong, and it goes against the teachings of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
- Kansas Hill: Hannah, in order to get real answers from the Netherworld, you've gotta have a Christian virgin run the board. Your kind is pure of heart, the devil won't dick with you.”
Rachel Blanchard - Hannah Wald
Mena Suvari - Kansas Hill

“Hating is easy. That's what I found out. It has its own ways. It just grows. The man whose clothes you are in, I hated him for years. I'd stand beside him at mass and pray, Lord let me be free of him.”
Sorcha Cusack - Mary