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Mark Twain Quotes about Prayer

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain
Atheist, Prayer, Book

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Mark Twain
Country, Prayer, Taxation
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.467, Courier Corporation

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

Mark Twain
Christian, Brother, Prayer
Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge

Mark Twain
Religious, Prayer, Powerful

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

Mark Twain
Morning, Prayer, Reading

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Mark Twain
Prayer, Cutting, Enemy
Mark Twain (2011). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court—Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo: English-Spanish Parallel Text Edition Volume One”, p.220, Lulu.com

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Horse, Prayer
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3132, GENERAL PRESS

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Mark Twain
Prayer, Taken, Dust
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3367, Delphi Classics

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

Mark Twain
Spiritual, Prayer, Lying
Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

Mark Twain
Prayer, Odds, Waiting
Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

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