Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“Pleads he in earnest? Look upon his face.
His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest.
His words come from his mouth; ours from our breast.
He prays but faintly, and would be denied;
We pray with heart and soul, and all beside.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Since I do miss your vaice an’ feace
In prayer at eventide,
I’ll pray wi’ woone said vaice vor greace
To goo where you do bide;”
—William Barnes (1801–1886)