Prayer Quotes

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Anouk Aimee

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Saint Augustine

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus