Age Quote by James A. Garfield

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

— Paul Cezanne

“Do in after life the freshness and light-heartedness, the craving for love and for strength of faith, ever return which we experience in our…

— Leo Tolstoy

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

— Amy Carmichael

“In this way God's grace, our universal mother, will give us gentleness, so that we begin to imitate Christ. This constitutes the third commandment;…

— Saint Nikodimos

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“Miserable humanity was clamouring from the depths of its abyss of suffering, and the clamour swept along, sending a shudder down every spine, for…

— Émile Zola

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

— William Shakespeare

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

— Junipero Serra

“Spiritually, we also move in seasons. We seem to bounce between times of great intimacy and closeness with God, to times of dryness. Like…

— Naomi Reed

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling blood of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of…

— Hermann Hesse