“I don’t pray because it doesn’t work. Prayer doesn’t fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.”— Nicholas Sparks Related Quotes “Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.”— Teresa of Avila. “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”— Martin Luther “Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.”— Philip Yancey