Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

None can pray well but he that lives well.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you must ask to attend to them.

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.