Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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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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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
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Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
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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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Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender
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I will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. They reckon of the saints a tribe, King of heaven, may I be eloquent about thee! Before the separation of my soul from my flesh.
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It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.
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Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.
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God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
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You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.
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Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
