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.
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part,
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
It is best to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.
He that loveth little prayeth little; he that loveth much prayeth much.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.