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They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright! (Quote by - Robert Burns)

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)

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. (Quote by - Bible)

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Only man, among living things, says prayers. Or needs to. (Quote by - Peter Bowman)

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. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha, or a Sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. (Quote by - Satchel Paige)

But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise! (Quote by - Edmund Vance Cooke)

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! (Quote by - James Beattie)

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. (Quote by - Bible)

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress. (Quote by - William Blake)

Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. (Quote by - Verbena Woods)

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)

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. (Quote by - Hartley Coleridge)

Give us this day our daily bread is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. (Quote by - P.J. Wingate)

He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

The fewer the words, the better the prayer. (Quote by - Martin Luther)

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

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