Bricks Quote by Jack Dee

I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing.…

— Pat Conroy

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had…

— Iyanla Vanzant

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into…

— Wendell Berry

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and…

— Abigail Adams

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

— Dave Gahan

I tend to do a lot of praying, kind of like when Jesus was overwhelmed and at the end of a long day, He…

— Jonathan Roumie

I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make…

— Charles Bukowski

I still pray when I fly and all that stuff and it can't hurt anything but there's too many things in both religions that…

— Jay Baruchel

“The phenomenon of praying is beyond description.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like…

— J.D. Salinger

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

— Marilynne Robinson

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

— Jim Jefferies