“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.”
Phillip Brooks
“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
Victor Hugo
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.”
Voltaire
“If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men”
Richard Baxter
“If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another”
Epicurus
“Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.”
Emily Dickinson
