Quote by Oscar Wilde

“There is no poetic art like praying.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and companionship. He…

— William Styron

“Very often it happens that prayer is on the lips, but in the heart cunning, incredulity or unbelief, so that by the lips the…

— St. John of Kronstadt

“Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray…

— Craig Groeschel

“  Familiar to our eyes, all places else   Inhospitable appeer and desolate,   Nor knowing us nor known: and if by prayer   Incessant I could hope…

— John Milton

“He had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt than if…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.”

— John Calvin

“After a time, he felt a deeper rhythm, the rhythm of the stone and water, not the rhythm of his words and heartbeat. He…

— Katherine Addison

“He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places,…

— Richard Bausch

“He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine, he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine. He follows the same…

— Thomas Paine

“He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne