“Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”
Source: Biography
"Teacher"
The Children's Story (1982)
Context: Maybe we didn't pray hard enough. Perhaps we should kneel down like is done in church. Perhaps were using the wrong name. Instead of God, let's say "Our Leader." Let's pray to our leader for candy! Let's pray extra specially hard, and don't open your eyes until I say.
“Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.”
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943).
“He prayed, 'Lord God, let us be the kind of Christians that you would be if you were a Christian'.”
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 24
De Flagello myrteo. xiii.
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 16, “Sentence” (p. 151)
“Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.”
Pope Francis quotes Bloy in his first homily as Pope. Pope Francis: 1st homily. Missa pro Ecclesiae in the Sistine Chapel http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-1st-homily-full-text
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work
