"Observe prayer at sunset, till the first darkening of the night, and the daybreak reading-for the daybreak reading hath its witnesses', and watch unto it in the night: this shall he an excess in service."

"Prayer is not an asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is a daily admission of one's weakness."

"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth."

"The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it."

"Passion is the power of prayer."

"In spite of despair staring me in the face on the political horizon, I have never lost my peace. In fact, I have found people who envy my peace. That peace, I tell you, comes from prayer; I am not a man of learning, but I humbly claim to be a man of prayer. I am indifferent as to the form. Every one is a law unto himself in that respect. But there are some well-marked roads, and it is safe to walk along the beaten tracks, trod by the ancient teachers. Well, I have given my personal testimony. Let every one try and find that as a result of daily prayer, he adds some thing new to his life, something which nothing can be compared."

"The prayers of those whose tongues are nectared but whose hearts are full of poison are never heard."

"Let Light descend on Earth."

"I do not pray to ask God for things. I pray to thank God for bringing me where I am."

"“And for what it’s worth, which in my professional opinion isn’t a bloody lot, I’ll pray for you.” “Pray to what?” Marge said. He smiled.... “Fuck it,” the man said. “Tell you what. What’s the point collecting stuff you don’t use? I’ll pray to all of them.”"

"Vigilate et orate."

"Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real."

"That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright— But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight."

"And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two."

"An animal may be cunning and ferocious enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie."

"This shows that liars ought to have good memories."

"Ce mensonge immortel."

"Had I a heart for falsehood framed. I ne'er could injure you."

"I give him joy that's awkward at a lie."

"Hercle audivi esse optimum mendacium. Quicquid dei dicunt, id rectum est dicere."

"Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars)."

"Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the Speaker."

"Qui ne sent point assez ferme de memoire, ne se doit pas mêler d'être menteur."

"Splendide mendax."

"Round numbers are always false."

"I said in my haste, All men are liars."

"Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell."

"Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies."

"Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying."

"As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood."

"Mendacem memorem esse oportet."

"The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples—that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at."

"An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar."

"Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments."

"Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus."

"And none speaks false, when there is none to hear."

"You lie—under a mistake— For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face, I now Say what I think."

"Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti."

"Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in præcipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere."

"Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbors’ eyes?"

"There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience."

"A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre."

"When hope lies dead—ah, when 'tis death to live, And wrongs remembered make the heart still bleed, Better are Sleep's kind lies for Life's blind need Than truth, if lies a little peace can give."

"Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise."

"The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. … How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"

"“I don’t think he (Branch Rickey) would lie,” said Red Smith, “but he was so good at evasion, at circumlocution, that he didn’t have to lie.”"