Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“I pray you do not fall in love with me,
For I am falser than vows made in wine.
Besides, I like you not.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A woman who’d lost her first son
consoled us with an angel gone ahead
to pray for our family—
gone into that sky
seeking oxygen,
gone into autopsy,”
—Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
“I suddenly realized that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom more bright than any heaven had to offer, and for which it was a glory to die.”
—John Reed (1887–1920)