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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.

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Most quoted on prayer:

mommy cannot wait to hug and kiss you tomorrow! You are yet another answered prayer in our lives!

Pauleen Luna

That is my sister, It was prayer day in her school. I have taken care of her since she joined primary school. When our parents died, she was six months old.

Mary Moraa

True prayer requires no word, no chant
no gesture, no sound.
It is communion, calm and still
with our own godly Ground

Angelus Silesius

The sweetness of prayer is one thing

Isaac of Nineveh

We, Ahmadi Muslims Do not hate anyone, But to those who oppose us or hate us, we respond only with love And prayers because that is what The Quran has taught.

Mirza Masroor Ahmad

But I remember when I was praying, I felt a peace come over me, and I was like, ‘this is an answer to a prayer

Meagan Good

. I am sure and I have evidence that someone who was [HIV] positive turned negative after prayers

Sarah Achieng Opendi

I use prayer as a form of protection and devotion throughout my work

Boemo Diale

[On religion] I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

Frank Sinatra The Way You Wear Your Hat (1997)

...what has become my frequent prayer since I have had to face death -"Thy holy will, O Lord, not mine be done!"

Robert Hughes Things I Didn't Know (2006)

On the day
While closing my eyes in the mist of the sacred temple
I suddenly heard
The true world of your prayer

He Xuntian

A Prayer For Rain
...let love be brought to ignorance again.

Lisel Mueller Dependencies (1965)

The prayer of Bernadette is contagious.

René Laurentin

A woman's prayer, how powerful it is in a man's life. If you get a woman on your side to pray for you, things can change in a different way

Kountry Wayne

“I still wonder why people do bad to each other. My prayer and wish is that Rwanda continues to grow and become the best mother land it can be"

Miss Jojo

You know, that’s why I say hard work pays off. Just keep working. God will answer your prayers and just keep praying.

Mpumi Nyandeni

It was not all that easy, I must confess but I was able to cope due to my due to my ardent determination to excel coupled with hard work and prayers.

Olubola Babalola How I became Africa’s first female professor in quantity surveying (2016)

It happened the first week of April, I think. (beginning of "The Lord's Prayer")

Anna Seghers

I said a prayer that [first] night and I was crying and I talked aloud and I said, 'Lord, I'm scared.' Because it was frightening

Karen Huger

They tell us of the fixed laws of nature! but who dares maintain that He who fixed these laws cannot use them for the purpose of answering His people's prayers?

William Mackergo Taylor Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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