First, prayer; then, atonement; in the third place, very much 'in the third place', action.
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.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
No longer dream that human prayer
The will of Fate can overbear.
There are times when a person is transported from prayer to a wondrous meditation on God.
With tears we sow seeds of prayer in the earth of the heart, hoping to reap the harvest in joy.
The Lord is the center of our prayer, the rest of us, we are there to adore Him.
If you are not expecting answers to prayers, it shows that you don’t believe God is willing or able.
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.
God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die.
“Prayers, patience, partnership. Faith is a big thing in our relationship.