When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.