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

— Gypsy Rose Lee

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

— Tim Walberg

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

— L. Lionel Kendrick

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

— Geraldine Ferraro

No praying, it spoils business.

— Thomas Otway

The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

— China Chow

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

— Marianne Williamson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Prayer is where the action is.

— John Wesley

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

— Wendell Berry