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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde
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A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.

Tennessee Williams
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Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer. -Jamaican Proverb
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Madame de Stael
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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. -Josh Billings
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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher
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You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. -Phillip Brooks
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Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.

Dana Carvey
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen
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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. -Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates
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Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. -Mother Maribel
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Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

Gypsy Rose Lee
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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal
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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. -G. E. Lessing
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He said: The prayer of you both has indeed been accepted, therefore continue in the right way and do not follow the path of those who do not know. (Jonah 10.89).

Quran
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Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.

Burton Hills
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I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. -Josephine Baker
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus
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I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

Fra Giovanni Giocondo
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. -General Douglas MacArthur
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Saint Teresa Of Avila
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Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

Virgil
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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. -Aeschylus
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard
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Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels. -Frank Sinatra
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