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Quotes About Prayers

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.
~ James Martineau
Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
~ Franny Billingsley, Chime
Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.
~ T. L. Cuyler
The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.
~ George R. R. Martin
My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.
~ Frank Moore Cross
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
~ Epicurus
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
~ Ovid
We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.
~ William Shakespeare
Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.
~ Florence S. Jacobsen
Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.
~ Bob McDonnell
Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God answered the prayers of animals.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.
~ Benjamin Franklin
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
~ Alexandre Dumas
To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
~ Barbara Smoker
Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
~ Thomas Browne
Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope
~ David Levithan
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.
~ Doc Hastings
I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
~ Emily Bronte
Always look for ways to act upon the faith you display in your prayers.
~ Anonymous