Answered Quote by Jack Dunphy

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection,"…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn’t care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere, those prayers…

— John Connolly

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

— Eric Metaxas

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

— Francois Fenelon

“He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If anyone wants to pray, he should do it in the silence of the church and not carry on like people at a county…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“He was in need of prayer to battle the terrible emotions that threatened to drag him farther and farther from God.”

— Tamara Leigh

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

— Eric Metaxas

“an infantry captain addressed his men: “We do not pray for victory, nor even for our individual safety. But we pray for help that…

— Rick Atkinson

“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those…

— Peter Kreeft

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did…

— Kenzaburo Oe