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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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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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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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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God-honoring prayers are not simply shopping lists. They are more than cries for help, strength, mercy and miracles. Authentic prayer should include worship, submission, requests, and confessions.
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Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
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I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
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When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.
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Prayer is the link that connects us with God.
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Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.
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A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)
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God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body
