#pray

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. ↗

— Ovid

#fortune #prayers

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#giants #look #pray #sir #things

Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches. ↗

— Unknown

#kiss #love #pray #prayers #sincere

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#clean #fast #fat #his #lean

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal. ↗

— Rumi

#equality #prayer #equality

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barely #child #himself #into #language

Prayer in private results in boldness in public. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prayer #private #public #results

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#been #during #end #god #may

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. ↗

— Orson Welles

#bore #god #i #pray #want