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Prayer

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

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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

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

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

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Socrates

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

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

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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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

Lessing, Doris

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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

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14.

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

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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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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]

Bible

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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Temple, Sir William

19.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

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

Proverb

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If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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

Oscar Wilde

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Illich, Ivan

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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

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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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Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]

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

Meister Eckhart

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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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

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

Seneca

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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.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Seneca

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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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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

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

Proverb