The only remedy for a barren heart is prayer, however poor and inadequate.
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.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
No prayer addressed to my god ever returned any useful insight.
How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone.
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
Seven years she schemed to be queen, and God protect us from answered prayers.
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.