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.
114. Do not by any means strive to fashion some image or visualize some form at the time of prayer.
153. When you give yourself to prayer, rise above every other joy — then you will find true prayer.
By forcing us to look closely at our requests, prayer purifies us.
One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.
If you only utter a single prayer in this life let it be Thanks, with all your heart