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Praying Quotes by Annie Dillard
- I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
- I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from…
- The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is…
- What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of…
More Praying Quotes
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers… — Charles Babbage
- We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be… — Abu Bakr
- I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying. — Fantasia Barrino
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather… — Drew Barrymore
- When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as… — Ethel Barrymore
- I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying… — Beck
- And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy… — Venerable Bede
- I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must… — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. — Henry Ward Beecher