Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“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)
“You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 5:43,44.
Jesus.
“I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)