William of Auxerre Quotes
God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
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What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?
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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
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Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
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Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
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When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.
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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
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I have said in many interviews that God had a better plan for me than I ever anticipated. I still firmly believe that, and I am grateful for a prayer answered.
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Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.
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Water were your limbsAnd the fire was your hairAnd then the moon caught your eye,and you rose through the air.Well if you've seen true light,then this is my prayer:Will you call meWhen you get there?
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Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
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The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.
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You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.
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If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.
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I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
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God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body
