„In it and in the other prayers of the Mystics there is scarcely a petition. There is never a word of the theory that God’s dealings with us are to show His “power”; still less of the theory that “of His own good pleasure” He has ” predestined” any souls to eternal damnation.“

— Florence Nightingale

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„A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.“
— Paulo Coelho
„God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.“
— Sathya Sai Baba
„Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.“
— Jonathan Edwards
„The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God's chillun, but that as soon as he has any luck he owes it to the Devil.“
— H.L. Mencken