Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“Snug. Have you the lion’s part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me; for I am slow of study.
Quince. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God’s help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very bad company, and was never invited to dinner.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)