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Prayer

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

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Seneca

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

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

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

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

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

10.

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

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

G. E. Lessing

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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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

24.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Juvenal

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

Real Live Preacher

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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Michalski, Stan

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Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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

Bible

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

Meister Eckhart

40.

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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

43.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

45.

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

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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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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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