Oscar Wilde Quotes About Prayer

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

• Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Correspondence, Ifs

  Quoted in Laurence Housman, Echo de Paris (1923)

• The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Government, Differences

• If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Punishment, Answers

• If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Would Be, Needs

• There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Men, Forgiving

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

• When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Prayer, Children

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,
  For I am drowning in a stormier sea
  Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

  Oscar Wilde

  Jesus, Prayer, Lakes

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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