PRAY, v.
Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
--Douglas Adams
PRAY, v.
Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.
You should never trust a person who prays in public.
--Stephen King
PRAY, v.
To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
--Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary