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“I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.”

“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

Sometimes Mother Prayer Baby Mouths Fingers Hunger Starving Thrust Like A Mother

Author:I. L. Peretz

“Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.”

Running Spiritual Spirit Prayer Mouths Wander Spiritualism

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.”

Prayer Sea Sky Broken Comfort Taste Mouths Beer Beach Flats Horizon Bottles Shopping Tire Highways Washing Shattered Stretching Futility Malls Rainstorms Flat Tires Kleenex

Author:Tim Farrington

“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”

Heart May Helping Prayer Praying My Heart Mouths Depth Help Me Grants

Author:Martin Luther