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Prayer

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Socrates

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.

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

Bible

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Buttrick, George

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

Herbert, George

10.

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

Brault, Robert

11.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

12.

Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb, English

14.

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

Real Live Preacher

15.

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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

18.

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

Tomlin, Lily

19.

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

G. E. Lessing

22.

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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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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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

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Augustine, St.

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

Tupper, Martin

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Schillerbuch

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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Seneca

42.

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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

45.

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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Barr, Amelia E.