Quotes about prayer
52 quotes from 42 people
Sylvia Plath1932–1963Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (February 1956)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
William Tyndale1494–1536Last reported words before being strangled and then burnt in 1536
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert PublishersIt is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live, skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 64Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter X: On living to oneself, Line 5.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Mother o’ Mine (1891).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. II, l. 952
John Adams1735–1826On the White House, in a letter to Abigail Adams (2 November 1800)
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1941–1942Dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.
Plato429–349 BCPhaedrus, 279cCease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 376
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)