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.
26. Prayer is a state of the mind destructive of every earthly mental representation.
“very loving thoughts, and prayers and well wishes” from then up until their family grew.
Let us help each other in prayer, so that one day we can find ourselves reunited in Heaven.
Adoration in prayer purges our spirit and prepares us to listen to God.
That the intellect should standing during the office or in prayer continually, again and again