Doe Quote by Wiley Drake

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

— Oscar Wilde

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

— Richard J. Needham

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

— Oscar Wilde

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“When the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers.”

— karen Blixon

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

— John Shelby Spong

Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.

— Marcus Eremita

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

— Oscar Wilde

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer