Prayer Quotes
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The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.
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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
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When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.
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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.
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Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.
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We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.
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Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.
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There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.
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The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.
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Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.
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For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
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To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.
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Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.
