Prayer Quotes
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Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work.
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Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer.
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Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
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God helps me for sure every day and at every contest. I broke my hand and had to get surgery on it. The recovery was really frustrating because I had to skip three weeks at the beginning of the season. But I flipped it around and took it as a blessing. I said a lot of prayers and just asked God to do His thing. I did other things to compliment the recovery like getting the right sleep and taking care of my body. But I went back to the doctor after four weeks and he was ecstatic about the recovery of my hand. I take that as a tribute to my faith and my belief in doing the right things.
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Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.
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Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.
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Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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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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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.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
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Prayer is the greatest thing I have as I walk upon this earth.
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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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The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it is sound, then the rest of his deeds will be sound. And if it is bad, then the rest of his deeds will be bad.
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Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.
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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.
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.
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You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
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Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes.
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Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.
