Sweet souls around us watch us still,
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. [ Spurgeon ]
When prayers are done my lady is ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers. [ Quarles ]
But strong of limb
And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far
Outstripping all, comes first to every land,
And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers
Do afterwards redress. [ Homer ]
I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To prayers than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore:
Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
Eternal tempest never to be calmed. [ Milton ]
He says any thing but his prayers, and them he whistles. [ Proverb ]
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [ Juvenal ]
Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross my prayers. [ William Shakespeare ]
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. [ Virgil ]
Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. [ William Shakespeare ]
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. [ George Sand ]
I do beseech you - chiefly that I may set it in my prayers - what is your name? [ William Shakespeare ]
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. [ Stillingfleet ]
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [ Seneca ]
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
He that sows the ground with diligence gains more religious merit than by repeating ten thousand prayers. [ Zoroaster ]
The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. [ James Martineau ]
The prayers of a mother do not die when she dies, and the real heart and its sinless sympathies are never buried in the tomb; her love is purer and warmer now, for it comes from the sainted spirit shore. [ A. W. Mangum ]
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good ; exercise ; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]
If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]