Prayer Quotes
The top of this page is made of devotional writers: Bill Hybels, the fourth-century monk Evagrius Ponticus, Shakespeare, the seventh-century bishop Isaac of Nineveh and Muhammad. The sourced counterweight is sceptical. Bertrand Russell, in 1952, says things go as we wish through knowing natural laws, not through prayer and humility, and Bierce, in 1911, defines to pray as asking that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.
A weather prayer credited to General Patton is flagged misattributed. A line saying a Christian without prayer is as impossible as being alive without breathing is credited to Martin Luther King Jr. and disputed, and a “thank you” variant attributed to Meister Eckhart is disputed as well.
Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.
Is there never a chink in the world above
Where they listen for words from below?
Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.
Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.
If she had supposed the gods ever listened, she would have prayed.
She thought about praying, but learned long ago there’d be no answer.
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.