Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: “Great God, grant that twice two be not four.” – Ivan Turgenev Category: Prayer
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. – Walter A. Mueller Category: Prayer
It is not eloquence, but earnestness, not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. – Hannah More, “Prayer,” Practical Piety Category: Prayer
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. – James Barrie Category: Understanding
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. – Michel de Montaigne Category: Faith
