Around her gulps of water, she repeated her prayer, until the monotony and futility silenced her.
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.
Upon the wings of fasting and alms holy prayer infallibly mounts up to heaven.
A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.
True prayer means the awakening of the Divine within the human being.
Ecumenism is a gift from God, a gift that becomes possible through prayer.
A properly devised Prayer said with all your true Love is a key to the door of the miraculous.
The road to the top is not smooth but with prayers, everything will go well.