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Prayer

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Foster, Robert D.

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Hippocrates

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.

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

Bible

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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 and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Illich, Ivan

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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

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Michalski, Stan

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

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

Socrates

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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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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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Herbert, George

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Wolpe, David J.

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb

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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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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