PRAYER

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(932 votes)  Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(890 votes)  Bow, stubborn knees!

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(887 votes)  Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(840 votes)  You can't pray a lie.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(777 votes)  When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(606 votes)  More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(603 votes)  Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(599 votes)  The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(588 votes)  To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(578 votes)  O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.

Sir Jacob Astley
15th Century British Squire

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(576 votes)  May the road rise up to meet you

Unknown Unknown

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(570 votes)  My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(569 votes)  When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Indian Proverb
Sayings of Indian Origin

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(550 votes)  Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(516 votes)  The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
1769-1852, British Statesman, Military Leader

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(516 votes)  Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Amelia E. Barr
1831-1919, Anglo-American Novelist

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(516 votes)  We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(511 votes)  Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Jewish Proverb
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(505 votes)  Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(490 votes)  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

John Donne
1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet

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(489 votes)  Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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(485 votes)  Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister, Poet

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(485 votes)  I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

Orson Welles
1915-1985, American Film Maker

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(481 votes)  Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Russian Proverb
Sayings of Russian Origin

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(477 votes)  There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

St. Teresa of Avila
1515-1582, Spanish Saint, Mystic

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(473 votes)  Common people do not pray; they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(471 votes)  Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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(462 votes)  It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

J. C. Macaulay

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(456 votes)  There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Ivan Illich
1926-, Austrian-born American Theologian, Author

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(452 votes)  Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin

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(450 votes)  In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

John Bunyan
1628-1688, British Author

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(448 votes)  If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Peter Townsend
British Singer, Songwriter

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(445 votes)  When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Sir William Temple
1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist

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(444 votes)  We know little of the things for which we pray.

Geoffrey Chaucer
1340-1400, British Poet

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(442 votes)  The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Robert Brault

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(441 votes)  Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen
1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer

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(441 votes)  A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Doris Lessing
1919-, British Novelist

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(434 votes)  Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard
1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer

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(433 votes)  The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Brother Lawrence
17th Century Mystic of the Catholic Persuasion

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(432 votes)  Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

St. John of the Cross
1542-1591, Spanish Christian Mystic and Poet

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(432 votes)  When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Jeremy Taylor
1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer

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(427 votes)  Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Ruth Graham

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(427 votes)  Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Douglas William Jerrold
1803-1857, British Humorist, Playwright

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(424 votes)  A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Alexander Cockburn
1941-, Anglo-Irish Journalist

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(417 votes)  To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Meister Eckhart
1260-1326 AD, German Mystic

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(413 votes)  Prayer is the voice of faith.

William Van Horne

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(410 votes)  Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Robert D. Foster

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(410 votes)  The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Roselle Mercier Montgomery

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(408 votes)  Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Edward Bouverie Pusey
1800-1882, Theologian

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(398 votes)  If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Isobel Kuhn

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