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Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Buttrick, George

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

Seneca

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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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

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb

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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]

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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

Seneca

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

Brault, Robert

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Schillerbuch

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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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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Indian

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

G. E. Lessing

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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