Table of Contents
Introduction 11
Prayers for Peace and Comfort
1 Fanny Crosby 17
2 Prayer of Jabez 19
3 Thomas à Kempis 21
4 George Webb 23
5 Francis Paget 25
6 Queen Lili'uokalani 27
Prayers for Guidance and Light in the Darkest Hours
7 Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi 31
8 William Wilberforce 33
9 Thomas Dorsey 35
10 Jonah 37
11 St. Teresa of Ávila 39
12 The O Antiphons of Advent 41
13 Bishop Charles H. Mason 43
14 Charles Vaughan 45
15 Naval Prayer 47
Prayers of Adoration for God
16 Gloria 51
17 Magnificat-The Prayer of Mary 53
18 Blaise Pascal 55
19 Søren Kierkegaard 58
20 George Herbert 60
21 Hannah 62
22 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 65
23 Thomas More 67
24 St. Francis of Assisi 69
25 Thomas Traherne 71
Prayers for Changed Hearts
26 Timothy Dwight 77
27 Dwight L. Moody 79
28 St. Anselm 81
29 Henry Scougal 83
30 William Booth 85
31 Billy Sunday 87
32 Fyodor Dostoevsky 90
33 Charles Spurgeon 92
Prayers for Justice in the Face of Evil
34 Sojourner Truth 97
35 Harriet Tubman 99
36 Frederick Douglass 101
37 Amanda Berry Smith 103
38 W E. B. Du Bois 105
39 Maria W. Stewart 107
Prayers for a Nation to Be Moved
40 Abraham Lincoln 113
41 George Washington 115
42 Ronald Reagan 117
43 John Jay 119
44 John Adams 121
45 James Madison 123
46 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 126
47 Jacob Duché 129
48 William Penn 131
49 Absalom Jones 133
Prayers in the Face of Pain and Grief
50 William Tyndale 139
51 Ludwig van Beethoven 141
52 Clara Ann Thompson 143
53 Richard Allen 145
54 Benjamin Tucker Tanner 147
55 Josephine D. Heard 149
56 Book of Common Prayer-Funeral Prayer 151
Prayers for Faith to Be Strengthened
57 Apostles' Creed 155
58 Andrew Murray 157
59 John Calvin 159
60 George Whitefield 161
61 John Chrysostom 163
62 St. Basil 165
63 Polycarp 167
64 Hannah Whitall Smith 169
65 St. Ignatius Loyola 171
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Gratitude
66 Martin Luther 175
67 Anne Bradstreet 177
68 Prayers of Grace for Meals 179
69 St. Richard of Chichester 181
70 John Greenleaf Whittier 183
71 Paul Laurence Dunbar 185
72 Anna Shipton 187
73 Walter Rauschenbusch 188
Prayers for Mercy When Our Hearts Stray
74 Dismas the Good Thief 193
75 Johann Sebastian Bach 195
76 Albrecht Dürer 197
77 John Newton 199
78 John Knox 201
79 John Donne 204
80 St. Augustine 207
81 Victor Hugo 209
82 Charles D'Arcy 211
Prayers for Daily Faithfulness
83 The Lord's Prayer 215
84 Jane Austen 217
85 Harriet Beecher Stowe 220
86 St. Thérèse of Lisieux 222
87 George MacDonald 224
88 St. Patrick 226
89 Susanna Wesley 230
90 Fred Rogers 232
91 George Müller 234
Prayers for Humility
92 Julian of Norwich 239
93 George H. W. Bush 241
94 Helen Hunt Jackson 243
95 Clement of Rome 245
96 Phillis Wheatley 247
97 Elizabeth Fry 249
98 Jeremy Taylor 251
99 John Wesley 253
100 Leo Tolstoy 255
Some Advice on Prayer 257
Notes 261
