Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn’t so. I tried it. Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn’t any good to me without hooks.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The wish to pray is a prayer in itself ... God can ask no more than that of us.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
“I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)