Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“Then let us pray that come it may,—
As come it will for a’ that,—
That sense and worth, o’er a’ the earth,
May bear the gree, an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, and a’ that,
It’s comin’ yet, for a’ that—
That man to man, the warld o’er,
Shall brithers be for a’ that.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“... no one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding community, can have any idea of its abominations.... even were slavery no curse to its victims, the exercise of arbitrary power works such fearful ruin upon the hearts of slaveholders, that I should feel impelled to labor and pray for its overthrow with my last energies and latest breath.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)