
“Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
Source: A Call to Prayer (1867), p. 16
“Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
Source: A Call to Prayer (1867), p. 16
“Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.”
Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Prayer+must+never+be+answered+if+it+is+it+ceases+to+be+prayer+and+becomes+correspondence%22&pg=PA106#v=onepage (1952)
“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”
Ch. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=n2g-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Who+rises+from+prayer+a+better+man+his+prayer+is+answered%22&pg=PA75#v=onepage.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859)
“Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.”
Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 376
Act. et Decr. Sacr. Concil. Recent., Coll. Lac. tom. VII, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1890, col. 10 as quoted in Paenitentiam Agere, encyclical by Pope John XXIII (1962). Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
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