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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
-English Proverb
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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.
-Scottish Proverb
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I asked for wisdom...
And God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity...
And God gave me brains and the strength to work.
I asked for courage...
And God gave me danger to overcome.
I asked for love...
And God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favors...
And God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted.
I received everything I needed.
My Prayer has been answered.
-Anon.
(of Islamic origin)
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
-Proverb
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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
-Proverb
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
-Proverb
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
-Proverb
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Short prayers reach heaven.
-Proverb
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O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
-Sir Jacob Astley
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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.
-W. H. Auden
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
-Amelia E. Barr
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When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?
-Ethel Barrymore
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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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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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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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So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
-Bible
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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
-Bible
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Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. I Thessalonians
-Bible
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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
-Bible
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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. Psalms 66:18
-Bible
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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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O brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper--and sleep too--than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgin slumbers.
-Andrew A. Bonar
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O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you, I cannot do it alone.
In me it is dark, but with you there is light;
I am lonely, but you do not desert me;
My courage fails me, but with you there is help;
I am restless, but with you there is peace;
in me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;
I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me.
Father in Heaven praise and thanks be to you for the night
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A prayer written in Tegel prison, Berlin
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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
-Robert Brault
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Books about Prayer
