I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.
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.
Wise is that Christian parent who begins every morning with the word of God and fervent prayer.
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.
I find that prayers don’t work when you need them most. Unless you answer them for yourself.
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
True prayer is an earnest soul's direct converse with its God.