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“Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.”
“Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently per...”
“We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.”
“When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.”
“I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a praye...”
“Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others throu...”
“The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.”
“In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.”
“I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.”
“God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.”
“Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.”
“What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.”
“In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.”
“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.”
“They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.”
“Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.”
“Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.”
“Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.”
“Prayer changes things.”
“Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.”