Seneca the Younger Quotes About Prayer

• The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Best Friend, Prayer, Inspirational Life

• A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

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  Prayer, People, Justice

• Fear drives the wretched to prayer

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  Prayer, Wretched

• Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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  Prayer, Wish, Wish You

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Letter XCV, line 1, c. 65 AD.

• The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prayer, Mind, Body

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (letter XIV), circa 65 AD.

• We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prayer, Blessing, Praying

• Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prayer, Cost

  "De Beneficiis". II. 1. As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

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