“Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.”
“When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.”
“Well, mamma, the Indians believed they knew, but now we know they were wrong. By and by it can turn out that we are wrong. So now I only pray that there might be a God and a heaven – or something better.”
“I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you now stand where I stodd yesterday, your cheeks against Heaven's curtain, and pray-Pray fervently for me to forge the bonds that bring us to eternity?”
“Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown.”