I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

Abraham Lincoln

I find it very difficult to ask God for things in the way that I was taught as a child. Do I believe God is going to take away my illness when he turned an entirely deaf ear to the 6 million Jews who went into the gas chambers?

Karen Armstrong

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: “Great God, grant that twice two be not four.”

Ivan Turgenev