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The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988
- Anti-Religion
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
- God
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), A Way to Prevent War (01 December 2013), p. 145In context
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige1906–1982New York Post (4 October 1959)
An angry man is unfit to pray.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Anger
Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Upon proclaiming a National Fast Day (30 March 1863)
I have been driven many times upon 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 Lincoln1809–1865
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005
I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: “O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!” God granted it.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville (16 May 1767)
- Enemies
Every wish
Is like a prayer⁠—with God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. II
Why is it when we talk to God we’re said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we’re said to be schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Contributions of Jane Wagner
- God