We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. Albert Einstein. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. Votes: 0, If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer. “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136. Some want prayer in school, some want condoms.

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. So I am a byproduct of prayer. I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. God never left the schools.

God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. Votes: 1, It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. So I am a byproduct of prayer. Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. Votes: 0, The Rosary is a school of Prayer. Votes: 1, Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do.

I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience. Votes: 1, I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. That violates the Constitution. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools.

Votes: 0, Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'

Votes: 1, My mother was a Sunday school teacher. The Rosary is a school of Faith. We're so mixed up about religion in this culture.

help us to be good sports and smile when we lose as wellaswhen wewin,. It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. Votes: 2, We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. Votes: 0, The Psalter is the great school of prayer. God never left the schools. My mom just kept on praying for her son. So I am a byproduct of prayer. Votes: 2, The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. Votes: 1, With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools. That violates the Constitution. I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. The Rosary is a school of Prayer. Votes: 3, As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. Votes: 0, Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. The Psalter is the great school of prayer. 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414. Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Votes: 3, Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional. If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. Votes: 0, I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer. A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

So I am a byproduct of prayer. Votes: 0, The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. Votes: 1, Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. Votes: 0, A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. Votes: 2, I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. Votes: 2, And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. Votes: 0, We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer. God never left the schools.

I would be so untethered without my personal faith. It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. The Psalter is the great school of prayer. Amen and Awomen.

I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

Every day we present the best quotes! I'm for prayer in schools. Votes: 3 We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. There is a mistake in the text of this quote. It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. I'm for prayer in school. Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. Votes: 3 Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I'm for prayer in school.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). I would be so untethered without my personal faith. Votes: 1, The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. Votes: 6 Votes: 2, At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon.