prayer quotes

He still had his glorious sense of words drawn from the special reservoir from which Lincoln also drew, fed by Shakespeare and thoseTudor critics who wrote the first Prayer Book of Edward VI and their Jacobean successors who translated the Bible.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
  Of  Winston Churchill. Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known.

Comin' in on a wing and a prayer.

- Harold Adamson
  Title of song. The phrase was taken from the words of a fighter pilot from his battered jet to ground control.

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

- Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge
  In The Guardian, 8  Aug.

Le de s ir de la prie'  re est de j a'   une prie'  re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

- Georges Bernanos
  Le Journal d'un cure   de campagne, ch.2 (translated by P Morris as Diary of a Country Priest,1937).

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 21:12^13.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 5:16.

Auld Scotland wants nae skinking wareThat jaups in luggies; But, if ye wish her gratefu'prayer, Gie her a Haggis!

- Robert Burns
  'To a Haggis', stanza 8.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter hast the largest congregation.

- Daniel Defoe
The True-Born Englishman, pt.1, l.1^4.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision and the old men's dream! See Bible106:5.

-John Dryden
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.238^9.

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action. The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  Minna von Barnhelm, act 2, sc.7.

The Church of England should no longer be satisfied to represent only the Conservative Party at prayer.

- (Agnes) Maude Royden
  Address to the Life and Liberty Movement, London,16 Jul.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 32, l.1.

Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 56, l.9^16.

If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Passing of Arthur', l.414^23.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

- Henry Vaughan
  Silex Scintillans,'The Search'.