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Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet —
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“The Higher Pantheism”, st. 6 (1867)
- God
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839)
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIn context
The ceremony of lifting up our hands in prayer is designed to remind us that we are far removed from God, unless our thoughts rise upward.
John Calvin1509–1564Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559), Book 3, Chapter 20, Section 5
Any heart turned Godward feels more joy
In one short hour of prayer, than e’er was raised
By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839)
- Happiness
Prayer is petition, intercession, adoration, and contemplation; great saints and mystics have agreed on this definition. To stop short at petition is to pray only in a crippled fashion.
Robertson Davies1913–1995A Voice from the Attic (1960)
Pray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips,
Think but one thought of me up in the stars.
William Morris1834–1896The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858), “Summer Dawn”
- Love
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Gitanjali (1912), 28
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- God
Prayer uniteth the soul to God.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Fourteenth Revelation, Ch. 43
- God
Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Hope
- War & Peace
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
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
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act III, Scene III, spoken by KingIn context
Batter my heart, three-person’d God; for you
As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend
John Donne1572–1631Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God (1633)In context
- God