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“Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.” John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a...” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“What did it avail to pray when he knew that his soul lusted after its own destruction?” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Centuries ago Calvinist faith turned the cathedral into a hangar, its only function being to keep the prayers of the faithful safe from rain and snow.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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