They ask that we pray for their families, and for kinder leaders, and for the homeless, and people with AIDS, and people in other countries in crises of starvation or war.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.

Prayer is not for the enhancement of our comforts but for the advancement of Christ's kingdom.

Only God can turn our nation and the hearts of its people.

She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.

The sky may darken, and the clouds may gather, and again the day may come when Britain may have sore need of her children, on whatever shore of the sea they be found. Shall they not muster at her call?

The change that had occurred in the political landscape was profound and dramatic and historic, and would affect the nation for years and years to come.

As nations become corrupt and vicious," he says, "they have more need of masters." The root of the word "vicious" is "vice"—the word simply means "full of vice." So Franklin, without feeling the need to explain himself much, is bluntly saying that "freedom requires virtue." And that less virtue inevitably begets less freedom.

That is what religious liberty was and is. The government essentially said, Yes, be religious. We will not only tolerate it; we will respect it and we will encourage it. But we cannot take sides or put our thumbs on the scales. But the understanding of this has been lost to many in modern America.

I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.