Prayer Quotations
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| God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no. | |||
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| God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us. | |||
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| Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. | |||
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| What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four. | |||
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| When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. | |||
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| As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. | |||
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| Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. | |||
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| Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. | |||
| - Henry Ward Beecher | |||
| It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. | |||
| - Henry Ward Beecher | |||
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| Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
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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 | |||
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| If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. | |||
| - Ashleigh Brilliant | |||
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| We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. | |||
| - Oswald Chambers | |||
| When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. | |||
| - Oswald Chambers | |||
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| I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. | |||
| - Frederick Douglass | |||
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| If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. | |||
| - Meister Eckhart | |||
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| It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. | |||
| - Matthew Henry | |||
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| Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. | |||
| - Hippocrates | |||
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| To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. | |||
| - Victor Hugo | |||
| Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. | |||
| - Victor Hugo | |||
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| I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
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| I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| Prayer draws us near to our own souls. | |||
| - Herman Melville | |||
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| Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. | |||
| - George Meredith | |||
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| God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. | |||
| - Richard J. Needham | |||
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| Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. | |||
| - Austin O'Malley | |||
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| Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. | |||
| - Satchel Paige | |||
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| Call on God, but row away from the rocks. | |||
| - Indian Proverb | |||
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| The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. | |||
| - Will Rogers | |||
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| Most people do not pray; they only beg. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. | |||
| - Socrates | |||
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| Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. | |||
| - Jonathan Swift | |||
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| Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. | |||
| - Corrie Ten Boom | |||
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| God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. | |||
| - Mother Teresa | |||
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| Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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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 | |||
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| When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. | |||
| - Jane Wagner | |||
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| Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||
| When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||