Praying Quotes - Page 19

• Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out if we kick the beggar at the door, where is our devotion? Compassion towards the poor is our duty to God. Mother is not saying that we should give money to every beggar that sits in front of a temple, but do not despise them. Pray for them as well. When we hate others, it is our own mind that becomes impure. Equality of vision is God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Sleep, Giving

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• Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Peaceful, Mind

  Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 6”, p.151, M A Center

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• If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: 'Lord, give Your blessing so that I may do this work in a manner that pleases You!' At the end, pray again to the Lord for forgiving any mistakes we may have committed during the task consciously or otherwise.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mistake, Blessing, Giving

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• Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Food, Humility

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• After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Food, Mutual Love, Helping

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• Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

  John Bunyan

  Wise, Men, Together

  John Bunyan (2014). “'Life and Death of Mr Badman' and 'The Holy War'”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Envy

  c.1874 Letter.

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• You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Summer, Pain, Rain

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• Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.

  Jessica Hahn

  Faye, Wanted, Tammy

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• Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Focus, Soul

  "In Tough Times, Seek the Spirit" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

  Eric Burdon

  Done, Can Do

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• The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

  Country, Prayer, House

  Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1989.

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• I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Religious, Jesus, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Modern, Educated, Asks

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

  Mark Batterson

  Way, Things Change

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• I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Ideas, Magic

  "Megachurch Pastor: Prayer Is My Wi-Fi". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 29, 2011.

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• For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

  Willow Bay

  Jobs, Children, Home

  "The Daily Balancing Act" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2007.

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• As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

  Demian Bichir

  Thinking, Peers, Stories

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• I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Mother, Husband, Sorry

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

  China Chow

  Airplane, Ambulance, Consistent

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• However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Heart, What Matters, Might

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• I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Sleep, Night, Worry

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

  Jim Caviezel

  Humble, Trying, Rosary

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