All time Quote by William Cowper

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

— Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

— Samuel Butler

No silent prayer for the faith-departed.

— Jon Bon Jovi

It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject…

— Joseph Addison

“the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken…

— Barack Obama

“An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I…

— Rob S. Rice

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

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is…

— Frederick William Robertson

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its…

— Mark Twain

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

— Henri Nouwen

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

— Gregory Maguire

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond…

— Rabindranath Tagore