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Prayer

«Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere»
Author: Gypsy Rose Lee | About: Prayer | Keywords: chair, praying, rocking, rocking chair
«Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere»
Author: James Martineau | About: Language, Poetry, Prayer, Religion | Keywords: atmosphere
«Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan»
«Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite»
Author: Peter Daniel | About: Prayer | Keywords: finite, prepares
«Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.»
Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop, Theologian) | About: Faith, God, Prayer, Work | Keywords: depended, pray, though
«Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh | About: Prayer | Keywords: oblique
«Seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones. (The Cow 2.45)»
Author: quran | About: Patience, Prayer | Keywords: assistance, cow
«Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. (Hebrews 13:18)»
Author: Bible | About: Prayer, Religion | Keywords: Hebrews, honestly
«Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Prayer, Success | Keywords: faster
«Say to My servants who believe that they should keep up prayer and spend out of what We have given them secretly and openly before the coming of the day in which there shall be no bartering nor mutual befriending. (Abraham 14.31)»