Stormie Omartian (1942) American writer
Source: The Power of a Praying® Woman
Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)
Stormie Omartian (1942) American writer
Source: The Power of a Praying® Woman
Uwais al-Qarani (594–657) Muslim saint
Quoted in Owais Qarni and his love for Prophet, https://www.arabnews.com/node/930256/islam-perspective by Abu Tariq Hijazi, Arab News, (28 May 2016)
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Context: Your childish fears would seek a Sire, by the non-human God defined,
What your five wits may wot ye weet; what is you please to dub "designíd;"
You bring down Heavíen to vulgar Earth; your maker like yourselves you make,
You quake to own a reign of Law, you pray the Law its laws to break;
You pray, but hath your thought e'er weighed how empty vain the prayer must be,
That begs a boon already giv'en, or craves a change of law to see?
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) American clergyman and author
"Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (1886), p. 330.
Context: O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
“And what guidance did you receive for all your prayers, lady?”
Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt
She bit her lip. “None.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 6 (p. 104)
“If you do not pray to God, what is that to Him? It is only your misfortune.”
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
Women Saints of East and West
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860