Praying Quotes
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Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.
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You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.
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Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.
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To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.
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Can we pray for the reelection of George Bush?
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The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.
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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.
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I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.
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I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
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Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
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I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!
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You should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.
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Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
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The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
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He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
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If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.
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We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.
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I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.
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What do you mean by praying that God will have mercy upon all men, and save them with an everlasting salvation, and then tell the congregation that God has done all He can to save them, and the matter rests with them, whether they will be saved or not?...if God has done all He can, why pray for Him do more? And if He has not done all He can, why tell the people He has?
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If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy.
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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls.
