Voltaire Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

• Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

  Voltaire

  Prayer, Persistence, Mind

• 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.

  Voltaire

  Prayer, Philosophy, Made

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.304

• God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

  Voltaire

  Prayer, Heart, Wicked

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4294, Delphi Classics

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