What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love?

“What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and…

— Virgil

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

— Joseph Hall

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

— Willa Cather

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

— Lord Byron

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

— Virgil

Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of…

— George W. Bush

I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or…

— Roger Ebert

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not…

— Wilbur Smith

“Why is it every time a madman's prayers are answered, a witch burns?”

— J. Danielle Dorn

“Anything else, Your Majesty?" "I didn't say my prayers." "I'll say them for you. Our father who art in et cetera, bless all the…

— Maggie Osborne

Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.

— Henry B. Eyring

“God will not cooperate with prayers of mere self-interest, or prayers that come from impure motives.”

— J Oswald Sanders

“the best answers to prayers are the ones God doesn’t answer.”

— Robin Jones Gunn

“All the miles, all the hours, watching, waiting, hunting, pretending. God had heard his prayers and brought him to this moment.”

— Julie Berry

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

— Pope Benedict XVI