Comedy Quote by Joshilyn Jackson

“And it had come from God, she was certain, for He answered most of her prayers that way. Unobtrusively. Quietly.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments.…

— Joseph Conrad

“There seemed something rather devotional about her pose, the still­ness, so that I thought at last, She is praying!, and made to draw my…

— Sarah Waters

“She’d prayed so much these past few weeks it had become a natural response, a strength and peace she drew on when she needed…

— Lynnette Bonner

“She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.”

— George Eliot

“...anxiety was, for her, a form of prayer.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“Concerns buzzed like flies in her head, and she swatted them with prayers.”

— Francine Rivers

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her…

— Alice Sebold

“Pagan lifted one shoulder and I prayed by all that was holy that she’d take off that pink bra. This may be invading her…

— Abbi Glines

“She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.”

— Hillary Jordan

“Her mom said they were to pray for the people her dad and his colleagues were treating, pray for his sound health and safekeeping,…

— Jan Karon