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Prayer

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

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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

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Robson, Dame Flora

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

10.

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

Bible

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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

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Taylor, Jeremy

14.

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

15.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

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

Michalski, Stan

17.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

18.

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

Bible

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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

20.

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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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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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

23.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

27.

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

28.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

30.

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

Proverb

31.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

32.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

36.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

37.

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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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Augustine, St.

41.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

42.

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

Tomlin, Lily

43.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

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

45.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

46.

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

Proverb, Indian

47.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

48.

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

49.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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