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| Fear drives the wretched to prayer | | Seneca | |
| For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4) | | Bible | |
| Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. (Psalms 55:1) | | Bible | |
| Glorify Him in the night and after the prayers. (Qaf 50.40) | | Quran | |
| God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord. | | George S. Patton | |
| Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, o Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee. (2 Chronicles 6:19) | | Bible | |
| Have you not seen those to whom it was said: Withhold your hands, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; but when fighting is prescribed for them, lo! a party of them fear men as they ought to have feared Allah, or (even) with a greater fear, and | | Quran | |
| He said: My Lord! surely my bones are weakened and my head flares with hoariness, and, my Lord! I have never been unsuccessful in my prayer to Thee. (Marium 19.4) | | Quran | |
| He said: The prayer of you both has indeed been accepted, therefore continue in the right way and do not follow the path of those who do not know. (Jonah 10.89) | | Quran | |
| He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. (Psalms 102:17) | | Bible | |
| Hear my prayer, o Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. (Psalms 39:12) | | Bible | |
| I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. | | Lewis Carroll | |
| I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. | | Frederick Douglass | |
| If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another | | Epicurus | |
| In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st | | William Cowper | |
| It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. | | Epicurus | |
| It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. | | Helen Keller | |
| It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. | | Aesop | |
| Keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and bow down with those who bow down. (The Cow 2.43) | | Quran | |
