Good Prayer Quotes

• Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

  Joseph Hall

  Prayer, Home, Should

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• Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

  Willa Cather

  Prayer, People, Said

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• After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.

  Freeman Dyson

  Prayer, Hands, Giving

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Long, Trying

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• A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Purses, Masters

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

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• I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

  Rodney Atkins

  Prayer, Men, Lucky

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