“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“I don't pray, Master Ring. I act.”
— David Gemmell, book Stormrider
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 8
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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 9
“I don't need to pray. I have God in myself.”
Ashraf Pahlavi (1919–2016) Iranian royal
In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)
“I try to be a Christian…I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”
Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Quoted in interview by Merv Griffin, from Frank Brady, Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles, Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, NY (1989), page 576.
“Pray to the I don't-know-who
I hope : Jesus Christ.”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
Prier le Je Ne Sais Qui
J'espère : Jesus-Christ.
Inscription on his tombstone.
Variant translation: Pray to the I don't-know-who: Jesus Christ, I hope.
As quoted in Parasuicidality and Paradox : Breaking Through the Medical Model (2007) by Ross D. Ellenhorn, p. 55
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) British writer
The last Fruit of an old Tree, Epigram cvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When I don't have an answer, I pray. God is the only alternative source of help.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 147
