Famous quotes containing the word prayed:
“They prayed for a touch,
they cried for the sight of my face,
they entreated me
till in pity
I turned each to his own self.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“He prayed more deeply for simple selflessness than he had ever prayed before—and, feeling an uprush of grace in the very intention, shed the night in his heart and called it light. And walking out of the little church he felt confirmed in not only the worth of his whispered prayer but in the realization, as well, that Christ had become man and not some bell-shaped Corinthian column with volutes for veins and a mandala of stone foliage for a heart.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)