“ Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. ”
- Francis Cardinal Spellman- Copy
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“ One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. ”
- G. E. Lessing- Copy
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“ Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. ”
- Hippocrates- Copy
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“ The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. ”
- Meister Eckhart- Copy
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“ 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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ”
- Saint Theresa of Jesus- Copy
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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. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ”
- Meister Eckhart- Copy
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“ God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
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“ Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness… It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts. ”
- George A. Buttrick- Copy
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“ The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency. ”
- Harold C. Phillips- Copy
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“ God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers, and severely by answering them. ”
- Richard J. Needham- Copy
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“ Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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“ The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
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“ He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
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“ In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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