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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: “Great God, grant that twice two be not four.”
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian author.
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) English churchman, writer.
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
If you want to make a man very angry, get someone to pray for him.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher.
The Lord’s Prayer contains the sun total of religion and morals.
Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) English soldier, statesman.
The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet.
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
John Donne (1572-1631) English metaphysical poet.
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
Bunyan.
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of his highest Willingness.
Trench.
The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
Jeremy Taylor.
Heaven is never deaf but when man’s heart is dumb.
Quarlse.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo.
Let not him who prays, suffer his tongue to outstrip his heart; not presume to carry a message to the throne of grace, while that stays behind.
South.
Every good and holy desire, though it lack the form, hath in itself the substance and force of a prayer with God, who regardeth the very moanings, groans, and sighings of the heart.
Hooker.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
H.More.
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
A.Maclaren.
I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat the Lord’s prayer.
John Randolph.
I know no blessing so small as to be reasonably expected without prayer, not any so great but may be attained by it.
South.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
Phillips Brooks.
Holy, humble, penitent, believing, earnest, persevering prayer is never lost; it always prevails to the accomplishment of the thing sought, or that with which the suppliant will be better satisfied in the end, according to the superior wisdom of his heavenly father, in which he trusts.
Weeks.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: “Great God, grant that twice two be not four.”
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian author.
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) English churchman, writer.
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
If you want to make a man very angry, get someone to pray for him.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher.
The Lord’s Prayer contains the sun total of religion and morals.
Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) English soldier, statesman.
The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet.
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
John Donne (1572-1631) English metaphysical poet.
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
Bunyan.
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of his highest Willingness.
Trench.
The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
Jeremy Taylor.
Heaven is never deaf but when man’s heart is dumb.
Quarlse.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo.
Let not him who prays, suffer his tongue to outstrip his heart; not presume to carry a message to the throne of grace, while that stays behind.
South.
Every good and holy desire, though it lack the form, hath in itself the substance and force of a prayer with God, who regardeth the very moanings, groans, and sighings of the heart.
Hooker.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
H.More.
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
A.Maclaren.
I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat the Lord’s prayer.
John Randolph.
I know no blessing so small as to be reasonably expected without prayer, not any so great but may be attained by it.
South.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
Phillips Brooks.
Holy, humble, penitent, believing, earnest, persevering prayer is never lost; it always prevails to the accomplishment of the thing sought, or that with which the suppliant will be better satisfied in the end, according to the superior wisdom of his heavenly father, in which he trusts.
Weeks.
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