Praying Quotes - Page 40

• The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on.... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten.... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.

  William Graham Sumner

  Fall, Men, Names

  "The Forgotten Man" (1883) See Franklin Roosevelt 3

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• I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.

  Alveda King

  Love You, President, Racist

  "ABC's Claiborne Presses MLK Niece to 'Understand, At Least, How Some' See Beck Rally as 'Affront' to Civil Rights Movement". www.newsbusters.org. August 30, 2010.

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• Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

  Emily Dickinson

  Feet, Broken, Atheism

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• We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.

  R. L. Hymers, Jr.

  Men, Scary, Earth

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• We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either that or taking our chances in a society with no values at all. For all Americans the former carries certain risks, but the latter spells certain doom. For now, we should not be deflected by theological debate from the life-saving tasks awaiting us. There is work to be done. We must ensure that America will continue to be part of God's plan for the world.

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, America, Choices

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2012). “America's Real War”, p.526, Multnomah

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• Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy line of separation of faith: to talk together, to study together, to pray together and ultimately to sing together His Holy name.

  Joe Lieberman

  Break Through, Names, Scary

  "Lieberman and Religion Seem to Be an Easy Mix". Speech at the Fellowship Chapel Church, Detroit, articles.latimes.com. August 28, 2000.

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• You cannot pray them out of hell.

  Bill Murray

  Scary, Hell

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• Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Scary, Melting

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• Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hypocrisy, Infidelity, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.97, Penguin

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• The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Pride, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

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• the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Rosary, Plowing, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1313, Library of Alexandria

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• I bear a burden that might well try
  Men that do all by rule,
  And what can I
  That am a wandering-witted fool
  But pray to God that He ease
  My great responsibilities?

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Responsibility, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.127, Library of Alexandria

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• For men were born to pray and save:
  Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
  It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Gone, Born

  "September, 1913" l. 7 (1914)

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• Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humility, Men, Wish

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• I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Jefferson Papers [1770-1826”

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• Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.

  Herman Melville

  Country, War, Expectations

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.272

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• If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

  Herman Melville

  Prayer, Men, Might

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.7

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• The soul's a sort of sentimental wife,
  That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Wife, Soul, Sentimental

  Richard Le Gallienne (1966). “Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoir-anthology”

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• For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Simple, Israel

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.4240, e-artnow

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• A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lord, Britain, Englishmen

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.103

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• I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.

  Jimmy Carter

  Prayer, Humble, Humility

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• The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Order, Religion

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• I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Gratitude, Pain, Feelings

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• Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
  Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
  And that they may be is the only prayer
  Worth praying. May my sacrifice
  Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Prayer, War

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

  Lyman Abbott

  Character, Quality, Forget

  Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1904). “The Outlook”

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