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Quotes about prayer
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O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me. (Day Dorothy)
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer. (Day Dorothy)
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. (Day Dorothy)
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on. (Day Dorothy)
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. (Day Dorothy)
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. (Day Dorothy)
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. (Day Dorothy)
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. (Day Dorothy)
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. (Day Dorothy)
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it. (Day Dorothy)
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. (Day Dorothy)
Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts. (Day Dorothy)
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships. (Day Dorothy)
We know little of the things for which we pray. (Day Dorothy)
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. (Day Dorothy)
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. (Day Dorothy)
When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer. (Day Dorothy)
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. (Day Dorothy)
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. (Day Dorothy)
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman] (Day Dorothy)
Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone. (Day Dorothy)
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. (Day Dorothy)
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. (Day Dorothy)
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. (Day Dorothy)
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. (Day Dorothy)
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