Prayers

Famous quotes containing the word prayers:

    “Our prayers are prophets.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,
    If thou the spirit give by which I pray;
    My unassisted heart is barren clay,
    Which of its native self can nothing feed;”
    —Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474–1564)

    “I nightly offer up my prayers to the throne of grace for the health and safety of you all, and that we ought all to rely with confidence on the promises of our dear redeemer, and give him our hearts. This is all he requires and all that we can do, and if we sincerely do this, we are sure of salvation through his atonement.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)