Commodity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- anything less than all good, -- is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray…

— Franklin Graham

“Pray for your own deliverance from your own vicious thoughts.”

— Bryant McGill

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

— Ben Jonson

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

— Michel Quoist

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“Prayer is a phenomenal tool for power, prudence and prosperity.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Prayer is in essence rebellion—rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal.…

— David Wells

“The highest result of prayer is not deliverance from evil, or the securing of some coveted thing, but knowledge of God.”

— Unknown Christian

“It is that we should learn to pray even while we are dwelling on evil. Perhaps we are waging an interior battle over anger,…

— Richard J. Foster