"And like someone who continually stands at night in prayer and like someone who continually fasts."
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.
They ridicule us for baptizing infants, praying for the dead, and asking the prayers of the saints.
The village muezzin called the faithful to prayer. Diane ignored the sound.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
Their sighan', cantan', grace-proud faces,
Their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers.