Prayers

Famous quotes containing the word prayers:

“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavern is where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)