Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. J
  4. John Greenleaf Whittier
  5. Prayer

John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes about Prayer

All John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes Age Art Autumn Beauty Children Christmas Duty Evil Faith Fashion Giving God Gold Goodness Heart Humanity Inspirational Joy Life Love Lying Memories Morning Nature Past Prayer quotes Romance Silence Sleep Soul Summer Sunshine Time Truth War Winter
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer, Spirit, Chains

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer, Headstone, Doing Good
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer, Heart, Simple
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.185

We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Life, Prayer, Children
John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Brother, Prayer, Heart
John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.124

You May Also Like: