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If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Mother o’ Mine (1891).
- Family
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)
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
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
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
Prayer uniteth the soul to God.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Fourteenth Revelation, Ch. 43
- God
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige1906–1982New York Post (4 October 1959)
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Sylvia Plath1932–1963Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (February 1956)
- God
Dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.
Plato429–349 BCPhaedrus, 279c
- Beauty
It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
- Science
Live 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.
- God
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
Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act III, Scene I, spoken by HamletIn context
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