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Prayer

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Seneca

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Herbert, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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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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