My prayer is that they should have twins. I wish them success.
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.
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Confession is probably the most neglected area of personal prayer.
The greatest prayer motivator in existence is answered prayer.
The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.
Let the following prayer not cease from your heart night or day
And Rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds,
Is one with Prayer.
This is our Lord's will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large.