Pray

Famous quotes containing the word pray:

    “Those who sin against Heaven will have no one to pray to.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.

    “I pray that Allah may be moved
    To drop sleep on her eyes because she loved.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)