Bag Quote by Joel C. Rosenberg

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet…

— Margaret Atwood

We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and…

— Wayne Dyer

“My pastor, Pete Wilson, gave a message on prayer, specifically citing this idea many of us have that prayer is a kind of transaction.…

— Diane Moody

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a…

— Helen H. Gardener

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

— Anonymous

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

— Mother Angelica

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way…

— Philip Yancey

“The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries -…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and…

— Harold S. Kushner

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

— Frederick Buechner