(410 quotes found)
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not cave in.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.”
William Law
“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
Victor Hugo
“It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”
C.S. Lewis
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.”
Alicia Keys
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”
Bible
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
Emo Philips
“I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman”
Dan Castellaneta
