"Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!"
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"It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them."
"They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it."
"You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength."
"I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do."
"Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard."
"Every day I pray about all I do."
"I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah."
"I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying."
"Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'"
"It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what you should be spending your life is in spreading and deepening that tradition."
"When the praying does no good, insurance does help."
"You cannot pray them out of hell."
"I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best."
"When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress."
"For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave."
"I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again."
"Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee."
"A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us."
"The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me."