| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. |
| Bible | But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. |
| Bible | Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. |
| Hartley Coleridge | Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away. |
| James Beattie | And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear! Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below, Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear! |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray! |
| Joseph Addison | Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee. - Joseph Addison, |
| Philip James Bailey | Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. |
| Robert Browning | Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed! So, I was afraid! |
| Robert Burns | They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright! |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The saints will aid if men will call, For the blue sky bends over all. |
| Unattributed Author | Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear, When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear. |
| Unattributed Author | O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me. |
| William Cowper | And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. |
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