Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
—Mark Twain
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
—Oscar Wilde
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
—Douglas Adams
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.
—Albert Schweitzer
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance.
—Kahlil Gibran
It was quite incomprehensible to me… why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace. "
—Albert Schweitzer
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
—John F. Kennedy
Once, perhaps, the God-intoxicated few could abscond to the wild frontiers, the forests, the desert places to keep alive the perennial wisdom that they harbored. But no longer. They must now become a political force or their tradition perishes. Soon enough, there will be no solitude left for the saints to roam but its air will shudder with a noise of great engines that drowns out all prayers.
—Theodore Roszak
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
—William Feather
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
—Jackie Windspear
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
—Margaret Mead
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
—Mother Teresa
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing—nothing.
—Francis of Assisi
God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is "You've got to be kidding.
—Jimmy Carter
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness.
—Emo Philips