Quotes by Auden, W. H.

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of t >>

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the >>

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something t >>

Quotations about Prayer

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will cert >>

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. >>

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

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.