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Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIn context
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Our Long National Nightmare Is Over (1974)
- Presidency
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remain’d to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith1728–1774The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Religion
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1941–1942
- God
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
Please God, make him think I am still pretty.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Beauty
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
- God
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
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
One can no more pray too much than love too much.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
- Love
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers; it is the only prayer that deserves an answer, — good, honest, noble work.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Work
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- God
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Faith
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 6:9–13 (KJV)In context
- God
Father in heaven, when the thought of thee awakens in our soul, let it not waken as an agitated bird which flutters confusedly about, but as a child waking from sleep with a celestial smile.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
- God