Civilized Quote by Emile M. Cioran

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

— Henry Parry Liddon

“There was an evil wind howling through the undulating hills that night, rattling the loose panes in the windows of the cottage, keeping me…

— Kiran Manral

“My most dangerous prayers have come in moments of deep frustration and seasons of brokenness.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

“Dangerous prayers are risky and life-stretching. Dangerous prayers come out of a spirit of brokenness. Dangerous prayers are filled with boldness and daring faith.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

“Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.”

— John Calvin

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

— J. C. Ryle

“Dangerous prayers take us to a new level of intimacy in our relationship with God.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

“We are all of us denying or fulfilling prayers – and men in their careless deeds walk amidst invisible outstretched arms and pleadings made…

— George Eliot

“If you do not pray, you easily become a prey!”

— Pedro Okoro

“If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one…

— Epicurus

“Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.”

— John Kramer