Annie Dillard Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspiring, Prayer, Forever

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.84, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Children, Thinking

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.126, Canongate Books

• We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Light, Joy

• The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Wings, Water

• You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Hard Work, Heart

  Annie Dillard (1977). “Holy the firm”, HarperCollins Publishers

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