(812 quotes found)
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
Mark Twain
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.”
James Dillet Freeman
“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
Oscar Wilde
“Most people do not pray; they only beg.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Please, dear God, don't let me fuck up.”
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.”
Voltaire
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Saint Augustine
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
“Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson