Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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We are not asking everyone to do everything. We are simply asking all members to pray, knowing that if every member, young and old, will reach out to just “one” between now and Christmas, millions will feel the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. And what a wonderful gift to the Savior.
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I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.
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We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
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If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.
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Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.
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I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.
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And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
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That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
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If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.
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They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.
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We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
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There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!
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If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
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Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!
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If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.
