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Lloyd Jones
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Prayer, Jones writes, is the best test of an individual, and it is also the best test of a church. A church can be flourishing: She can be successful in terms of organizations, she can be tremendously active and appear to be prosperous, but if you want
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Alexis Carrel
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If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.
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R.H. STODDARD: _The Children's Prayer._
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Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer
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George Meredith
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Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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Baruch (?Benedict de) Spinoza
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The exact origin of this beautiful prayer remains unknown, it does not appear in any known writings of St Francis. The first known appearance of this inspiring prayer was in 1912 when it was published in the French magazine La Clochette.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. xi., Line 307.
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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that br
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BRET HARTE: _The Lost Galleon,_ Last St.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint: Each lost day has its patron saint.
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William Franklin Billy Graham
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The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
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BAYARD TAYLOR: _Improvisations,_ St. 11.
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Labor, you know, is Prayer.
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Meister Eckhart
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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Saint Jerome
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To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
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Martin Luther
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.
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And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again.
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Johannes Meister Eckhart
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.
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TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxxii., St. 1.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.
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Unknown
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Prayer is .... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.
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American Indian Proverb
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A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick axe.
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POPE: _The Universal Prayer,_ St. 7.
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And deal damnation round the land.
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American Indian Proverb
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A hungry stomach makes a short prayer.
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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John Bunyan
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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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Voltaire
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
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Malcolm Boyd
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I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.
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TENNYSON: _Morte d'Arthur,_ Line 247.
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More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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COWPER: _Exhortation to Prayer._
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And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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Martin Luther
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.
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POPE: _The Universal Prayer,_ St. 3.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Ronald Reagan
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We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
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Catholic Prayer
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Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God's love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide.
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POPE: _The Universal Prayer,_ St. 1.
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Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.
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DEFOE: _True-Born Englishman,_ Pt. i., Line 1.
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Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
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Ambrose of Milan
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Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
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Unknown
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Prayer gives us the opportunity to speak to GOD, Meditation allows GOD to speak back to us.
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Native American Prayer
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And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
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Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer
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God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.
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L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
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Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)
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Augusta E. Rundell
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Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
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John Denver
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Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.
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General Douglas MacArthur
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A Prayer For My Son
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory???Give him humility, s
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Laurence Hope
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For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go
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Norman R. Augustine
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A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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David McIntosh
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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.
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MOORE: _As Down in the Sunless Retreats._
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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee.
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Jewish Prayer
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Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.
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Lloyd Jones
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Prayer, Jones writes, is the best test of an individual, and it is also the best test of a church. A church can be flourishing: She can be successful in terms of organizations, she can be tremendously active and appear to be prosperous, but if you want
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Anouk Aimee
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Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
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Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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"Prayer pimples for hairy fishnuts?" -- Opus Penguin
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"Feet and knees together!" - Skiers' & Virgins' prayer
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"Rejoice in the hope..persevere in prayer." ROMANS 12:12
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"Prayer. The last refuge of a scoundrel." - Lisa Simpson
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"Every night I say a prayer in the hopes that there's a heaven..."
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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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"God can pick sense out of a confused prayer."
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"911" - government-sponsored 'dial-a-prayer.'
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"We havent got a prayer" - Wesley
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"But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer, Gie her a haggis!"
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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
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"Jesus Christ!" "This is no time for prayer!"
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"Jesus!" "This is no time for prayer!"
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