“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”
Satchel Paige (1906–1982) American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues
New York Post (4 October 1959)
“When the gardeners are praying for rain, the picnickers are praying for sunshine. So what is the poor Lord to do?”
Featherisms (2008)
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Context: To see that He doeth it, and to pray forthwithal, — so is He worshiped and we sped. All-thing that our Lord hath ordained to do, it is His will that we pray therefor, either in special or in general. And the joy and the bliss that it is to Him, and the thanks and the worship that we shall have therefor, it passeth the understanding of creatures, as to my sight. For prayer is a right understanding of that fulness of joy that is to come, with well-longing and sure trust.
“Be good, love the Lord, pray for those who do not know Him. What a great grace it is to know God!”
Josephine Bakhita (1868–1947) Italian saint and former slave
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“Pray for wet Summers, Winters wanting Rain.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
Marat, act 1, scene 13 (pp. 28-29)
Marat/Sade (1963)
“Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present”
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Glory of the Garden http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/english_history/glorygarden.html, Stanza 8. <br class="br">Other works
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
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.