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.
Prayer is an initiation to Divine life; prayer brings bliss.
She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.
Prayer itself, if it lacks the community element, is much less effective than it could be.
Everything I have, I spoke it into existence. Prayer is power.
I watch his rough hands meet beneath her hair,
Their broken speech sounds sweet to me like prayer.