Prayer Quotes
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
William Ames
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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
C. S. Lewis
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Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.
Kathryn Kuhlman
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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.
Ephrem the Syrian
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It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.
Troy Polamalu
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Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.
Bob Buford
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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
J. G. Holland
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When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.
Basilea Schlink
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I believe in prayer. I pray every night.
John McCain
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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Buchan
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Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.
G. Campbell Morgan
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If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
Alexander Whyte
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Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.
Mother Teresa
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Writing [is] a form of prayer.
Franz Kafka
