"Help from nowhere.  The answered prayers."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.

From Together, 1961.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From The Film Daily, 1927.

"Prayers unanswered."  (Should have consulted Strange Prayers for Strange Times.)  From Wittenberg College's 1974 yearbook.

From Little Compliments of the Season by Eleanor Donnelly, 1887.

From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1949.

"That's a funny way to say your prayers."  From the University of Western Ontario's 1960 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"Merciful God!  Can this be true, or am I dreaming?"  From A Knight in Homespun by John Charles Spoth, 1909.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

Praying to the Muses, presumably.  From DePauw University's 1908 yearbook.

"Every soul has shrine and each man prays to his own mental image of God."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"Pray exclusively for yourself."  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"Okay, Fate.  How are you gonna bail me out of this one?"  From Passions episode 128.

From Mon Livre de Français by Frères du Sacré-Coeur, 1949.

From The Improvement Era, 1962.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"And lead us not into vacation, but deliver us from people, Amen."  From The Gleaner, 2013.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"The fisherman's prayer: O Lord, suffer me to catch a fish so large that even I when talking of it afterwards may have no need to lie."  Via UpNorthMemories.

"Bear ye one another's burdens."  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1945 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Asbury College's 1933 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"Oh dear God, dear God please let the curse be over."  From Dark Shadows episode 1214.