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Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

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Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Illich, Ivan

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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

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It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Eckhart, Meister

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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Proverb, Indian

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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

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You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of