From Faust by Goethe and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1908.

A prayer now 500 years old.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"Prayer as a scientific experience of consciousness."  From Horizon, 1954.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"And prayed that God would decide."  From The Girl's Own Paper, 1883.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

Looking very cat-like, the imps of the seven deadly sins freed through prayer.  From Secrets of the Supernatural by Herbert Molloy Mason.

From Bob Jones University's 1976 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From "Why No Revival" by Jack Chick, 1970.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"But before they taste a single bite they say a little prayer."  From The Children's Own Book of Songs and Silhouettes by Claire Burke, 1933.

From Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons, 1992.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"Give me this day my daily opinion, and forgive me the one I had yesterday!"  From the North Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing's 1972 yearbook.

From Positive Magic by Marion Weinstein.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From David Lipscomb College's 1943 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.

From Proverbial Philosophy by Martin Farquhar Tupper, 1849.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1965.

From Eastern Pentecostal Bible College's 1955 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.

Celestial visions.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.

A Pawnee prayer from the Hako ceremony.  From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.