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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Prayer

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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde
Prayer, Would Be, Needs

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Oscar Wilde
Prayer, Correspondence, Ifs
Quoted in Laurence Housman, Echo de Paris (1923)

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde
Prayer, Government, Differences

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Oscar Wilde
Prayer, Men, Forgiving
Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

Oscar Wilde
Jesus, Prayer, Lakes
Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

Oscar Wilde
Prayer, Punishment, Answers

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Oscar Wilde
Girl, Prayer, Children
Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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