#pray

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#crown #death #love #prayer #death

Keep on the watch and pray ↗

— Jehovah

#jehovahs #pray #prayer #religion #religion

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#religion #religion

I'll pray for you." "That's very kind of you." "I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#prayer #religion #rosary #religion

Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer: the soul's colloquy with the Creator, mortal man's dialogue with the Deity: with magical incantation and the ritual of the 'spell. ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#jabez #prayer #religion #religion

Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. I am praying. I'm talking to you, right? Oh...yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy #poseidon #pray #work

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. ↗

— J. Hudson Taylor

#harmony

Dear Jesus, do something. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#jesus

love the people God gave you because He will need them back one day. ↗

— Becky Kinder

#love

PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#prayer #law