“This is heaven. You can stop praying now.”
“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.”