Prayer Quotes
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God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William James
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Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.
Rod Stewart
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Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
William Gurney Benham
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We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.
Agnes Baker Pilgrim
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Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church in America -all based on the violation of one of our nation's canon laws: the separation of church and state.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.
Gene Edwards
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The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.
David Jeremiah
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Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
Blaise Pascal
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The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.
Bonar Law
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Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
Mother Teresa
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God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body
William of Auxerre
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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
David McIntosh
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We are all in this together. With fellow ward members and missionaries, we plan and pray and help one another. Please keep the full-time missionaries in your thoughts and prayers. Trust them with your family and friends. The Lord trusts them and has called them to teach and bless those who seek Him.
Neil L. Andersen
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It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
William Barclay
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Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
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The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.
Brennan Manning
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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.
Dan Barker
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A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.
Anthony of Sourozh
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Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.
Yasmin Mogahed
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
Victor Hugo