“Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.”
“Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.”
“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”
“Long ago people used to say what they wanted out loud and hope that someone would give it to them. They called it praying.”
“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.”
“People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought.”