Prayer Quotes - Page 29

• As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

  Victor Hugo

  Long, Sincere, Method

  "Stop What You’re Doing and Read".

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• True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Father, Faithful, Secret

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.111, SCM Press

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• By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Wells

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• Jenks laughed, taking to the air and saying, “Give it up, FIB man. It’ll take more than you to get her out. Remember what Ivy and I did to your finest last spring? Add Rachel to that, and you can say your prayers.” From behind me came Edden’s dry “You think Ivy wants another stint as a candy striper?

  Kim Harrison

  Spring, Men, Thinking

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• There's no prayer like desire.

  Tom Waits

  Desire

  Song: Black Market Baby, Album: Mule Variations, 1999

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• A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Soldier, Forgotten

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• Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Hands, Twists, Yards

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• I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Tired, Clothes

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

  Lisa Unger

  Powerful, Math, Wells

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.454, Crown

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• To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Letting Go, Hurt, Hate

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• But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Important, Answers

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Oct 24, 2012

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• Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Suitors, Cold, Aim

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• Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Past, Joy

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.212, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, Thinking, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Angel, Black And White, Color

  Jonathan Carroll (2008). “The Ghost in Love: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Imperfect World, People

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• I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Vengeance, Wrangling

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, illustr. by W. Lawson. Illustr. by E. Edwards”, p.173

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• If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Jesus, Sacrifice

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• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Wisdom, World

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• Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to the laws of your mind to suppose that you can force your soul into that gracious state. Take your heart in prayer to Him who understands it and say, "Lord, cleanse it. Lord, renew it. Lord, work repentance in it." The more you try to produce penitent emotions in yourself, the more you will be disappointed. However, if you believingly think of Jesus dying for you, repentance will burst forth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

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• - Every time someone cries out in prayer and I can't answer, I feel guilty about not being God. - That doesn't sound good. - I understand that I have a problem, and I know what I need to do to solve it, all right? I'm working on it. Of course, Harry hadn't said what the solution was. The solution, obviously, was to hurry up and become God.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Sound, Needs, Answers

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• Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray.

  Rajneesh

  Responsibility, Effort, Lazy

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• If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Moving, Judging

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14

  Stan Lee

  Endless, Stills, Eternal

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