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"The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank."
Janet Morris
Horse, Grief, Death, Prayer, Ritual
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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing
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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
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And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Jesus Christ
Prayer, Hypocrisy, Lord's Prayer, Hypocrites
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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
Mary Baker Eddy
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Bow, stubborn knees!
William Shakespeare
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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. -- Job 5:8-9
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Common people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Seneca the Younger
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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.
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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.
Phillips Brooks
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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
Søren Kierkegaard
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. -- Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
Desiderius Erasmus
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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
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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
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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. -- Psalms 66:18
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Mahatma Gandhi
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Mother Teresa
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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
Mark Twain
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Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. -- I Samuel 12:23
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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
Voltaire
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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No, if you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic.
Doris Egan
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
André Gide
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
Ernest Hemingway
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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
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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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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Augustine of Hippo
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Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.
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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. -- I Thessalonians
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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
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Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.
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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
George Herbert
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana
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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
Mildred Lisette Norman
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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire
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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
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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Georges Bernanos
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
Michel de Montaigne
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Teresa of Ávila
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
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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
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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
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Seneca the Younger
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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Jeremy Taylor
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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
William Temple
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
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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
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
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You can't pray a lie.
Mark Twain
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjöld
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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal
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