“Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”
Padre Pio (1887–1968) Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
“Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”
Padre Pio (1887–1968) Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”
Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor
Source: Biography
James Clavell book The Children's Story
"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.”
Betty Smith book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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'.”
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 24
Richard Garnett (1835–1906) British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
De Flagello myrteo. xiii.
Adam Roberts book Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 16, “Sentence” (p. 151)
“Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.”
Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist
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
Ward Cunningham (1949) American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work