Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Pray to God, but keep the hammer going. Pr.

Pray to God, sailor, but pull for the shore. Pr.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme. Sc. Pr.

Prayer and provender never hinder a journey. Pr.

Prayer is a groan. St. Jerome. 35

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereto. Luther.

Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan. Bunyan.

Prayer is a study of truth,—a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite. Emerson.

Prayer is a turning of one's soul, in heroic reverence, in infinite desire and endeavour, towards the Highest, the All-excellent, Supreme. Carlyle, in a letter to a young friend.

Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of 40 the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formulæ.... Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings. W. v. Humboldt.