Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. |
Pray not for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. |
Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. |
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. |
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. |
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. |
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. |
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. |
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. |
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. |