Let your prayers be humble, short, but energick. – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young Category: Prayer
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. – Richard J. Needham Category: Prayer
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. – Philip Melanchthen Category: Prayer
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners. – Jonathon Miller Category: Religion
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. – Daniel J. Boorstin Category: Experience
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. – John Adams Category: power