Prayer

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

—Frederick Douglass

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

—Billy Graham

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

—Constantine Peter Cavafy

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

—G. E. Lessing

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

—Hippocrates

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

—Josh Billings

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

—Meister Eckhart

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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

—Phillips Brooks

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

—Gordon Atkinson

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

—Saint Theresa of Jesus

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

—Francis of Assisi

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

—Saint Teresa of Avila

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

—Laurence Sterne