Poll on Prayer

• 91% of women pray, as do 85% of men.
• 94% of blacks, and 87% of whites
• 32% regularly feel a deep sense of peace. 12% never experience this.
• 26% regularly sense the strong presence of God. 21% never do.
• 15% regularly receive a definite answer to a specific prayer. 27% never have; 25% have once or twice.

Sources: Poloma and Gallup, “Varieties of prayer”: Greeley, Norc, Newsweek: January 6, 1992