The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.

More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Pray, n. To ask that the laws of the Universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this - Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

All I ask of Thee, Lord, is to be a drinker and a fornicator, an unbeliever and a sodomite, and then to die.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.