Prayer quotes

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part VII, Project Gutenberg #151. ‘He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small’ belongs to the Mariner's explicitly Christian concluding lesson after his supernatural ordeal, immediately following the parallel line about loving ‘Both man and bird and beast.’ It is fictional poetic speech and religious-moral language, not a neutral scientific, theological or animal-behavior proposition.

James 1:5, King James Version.

The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), explicitly devotional closing movement, Wikisource first-edition scan leaf 41. Johnson allows supplication for good while telling the petitioner to leave “the Measure and the Choice” to Heaven. The passage remains eighteenth-century Christian moral poetry rather than universal therapeutic, medical or decision-making guidance.

“A Better Resurrection,” in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862 first edition), Devotional Pieces, printed page 137 / scan leaf 153. The poem opens “I have no wit, no words, no tears” and develops grief and numbness through Christian devotional imagery before the stanza closes in prayer. This is literary/devotional expression, not a clinical description, diagnosis or treatment recommendation.