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“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 ...”
“Every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth.”
“Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you.”
“Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.”
“Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death l...”
“If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find that better way!”
“(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers...”
“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”
“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”~Blink”
“Dear Jesus, do something.”
“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”
“Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.”
“A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.”
“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
“if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing”
“What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets va...”
“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”
“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks co...”
“Why do you pray?" he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?"I don't know why," I said, even more disturbed and ill at ease. "I don't know w...”
“The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Goo...”
