PRAYER

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1. Lord, I shall be verie busie this day. I may forget Thee. . . .
   But doe not Thou forget me.—SIR JACOB ASTELEY, Prayer before the battle of Newbury
   

2. People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.—MARY AUSTIN
   

3. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.—Bible, James 4:16
   

4. Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.—PHILLIPS BROOKS, Twenty Sermons
   

5. Be not afraid to pray; to pray is right.
   Pray, if thou canst, with hope, but ever pray,
   Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay,
   Pray in the darkness if there be no light.—HARTLEY COLERIDGE, Prayer
   

6. He prayeth well who loveth well
   Both man and bird and beast.—COLERIDGE, The Ancient Mariner
   

7. He prayeth best who loveth best
   All things both great and small.—COLERIDGE, The Ancient Mariner
   

8. That saints will aid if men will call;
   For the blue sky bends over all!—COLERIDGE, Christabel
   

9. If prayer do not aid me first,
   That riseth up from heart which lives in grace
   What other kind avails, not heard in heaven?—DANTE, Purgatorio
   

10. Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.—DOSTOYEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov
    

11. There can be prayers without words just as well as songs, I suppose.—GEORGE Du MAURIER, Trilby
    

12. Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.—EURIPIDES, Alcestis
    

13. But I, when I undress me
    Each night, upon my knees
    Will ask the Lord to bless me
    With apple pie and cheese!—EUGENE FIELD, Apple Pie and Cheese
    

14. You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.—KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
    

15. They who have steeped their souls in prayer
    Can every anguish calmly bear.—R. M. MILNES, The Sayings of Rabia
    

16. What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support;
    That to the height of this great argument
    I may assert eternal Providence,
    And justify the ways of God to men.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

17. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
    Uttered or unexpressed;
    The motion of a hidden fire
    That trembles in the breast.—JAMES MONTGOMERY, What is Prayer?
    

18. Now I lay me down to sleep,
    I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
    If I should die before I wake,
    I pray the Lord my soul to take.—The New England Primer
    

19. He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to live as he prays.—ROBERT OWEN
    

20. Lord, for tomorrow and its needs, I do not pray;
    Keep me, my God, from stain of sin, Just for today.—SISTER MARY XAVIER, Just for Today
    

21. Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.—PLATO
    

22. We, ignorant of ourselves,
    Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
    Deny us for our good; so find we profit
    By losing of our prayers.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

23. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
    Words without thoughts never to heaven go.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

24. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.—STEVENSON, Prayer
    

25. More things are wrought by prayer
    Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
    Rise like a fountain for me night and day.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

26. Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf
    Than that I may not disappoint myself,
    That in my action I may soar as high
    As I can now discern with this clear eye.—THOREAU, A Prayer
    

27. We kneel, how weak ! we rise, how full of power!—R. C. TRENCH, Prayer
    

28. Lord, what a change within us one short hour
    Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make!—R. C. TRENCH, Prayer
    

29. Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."—TURGENIEV, Prayer
    

30. Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear
    My voice ascending high.—ISAAC WATTS, Psalm V
    

31. When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.—OSCAR WILDE, An Ideal Husband
    

32. The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.—WORDSWORTH, The Excursion