From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have…

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

— Erwin McManus

What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or…

— Sheila Cassidy

“He had never told her just what he thought of the value of prayer and all the rest of the self-deluding mumbo jumbo with…

— Richard Herley

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

— J. C. Ryle

From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and…

— Edmund White

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me…

— Maria Karnilova

“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital…

— Richard Russo

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

— Jami Attenberg

“Mother, once I learned what wings were, opening was easy.”

— Jacob Oet

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

— Margaret Mead

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely…

— Trevor Noah

“It was my mother who tucked him in and told him that there exists a sort of love in the world that only survives…

— Jenny Zhang

My mother is a very fun-loving person. She has been through a lot in her life. She has had a couple of divorces. When…

— Kenny Chesney

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also…

— Margaret Mead