Pray Quotes
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas
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"Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.
Chip Ingram
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
Victor Hugo
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I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.
Susan Kelechi Watson
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I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.
Edward H. Rulloff
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“Why do demons wish to excite in us gluttony, fornication, greed, anger, rancor and other passions? So that the mind, under their weight, should be unable to pray as it ought; for when the passions of our irrational part begin to act, they prevent the mind from acting rationally.”
Nilus of Sinai
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...pray for the grace to realize that no matter where you are, you are in the presence of the Lord.
Ann Spangler
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... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!
Georgia Harkness
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Pray Heaven that our enemies may fight each other to the bitter end, and by their obstinacy extinguish each other.
Ernest Belfort Bax
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of many, or a friend's betrayal, we must be able to pray in such a manner that an abiding faith and a strong testimony that the Lord will be with us to the end, will compel us to say, "Nevertheless, Father, Thy will be done, and with Thy help, in patience I will follow firmly on the path that takes me back to Thee."
Angel Abrea
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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
Plato
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With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God?
Rumi
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
Victor Hugo
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There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.
John Calvin
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Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.
Al-Shafi‘i
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Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.
Harry Houdini
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When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap it around my head and say to them that 'I'm a cleric, you need to pray behind me.
Hassan Nasrallah
