Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Prayer

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He prayeth best who loveth best.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prayer, Dear God, Praying

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 615 (1798)

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prayer, Mind, Energy

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Life, Prayer

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 615 (1798)

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prayer, Men, Mind

God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year; And O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings, and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother, And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mother, Brother, Prayer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1880). “The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prayer, Heart, Dust

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1246, Delphi Classics

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christian, Prayer, Philosophy

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.6