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Prayer Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
- When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. My prayer was to be immortalized by unintelligent gibbons on a satirical Web site.
- If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
- If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
- When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
- There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a…
- When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its…
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