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 the well-made prayer the pains melt like snow in the sun.
Variant: If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing
My children, your heart is small, but prayer expands it and makes it capable of loving God.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Before a well-crafted prayer, sorrows melt like snow in the sun.