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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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. -- Prayer To A Pregnant Woman – Desiderius Erasmus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine. – Seán O'Casey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. – John Wooden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error. – Mary Baker Eddy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. – Søren Kierkegaard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. – André Gide	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. – John Bunyan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer. – Omar Khayyam	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Whoso associates with the wicked will be accused of following their ways, though their principles may have made no impression upon him; just as if a person were in the habit of frequenting a tavern, he would not be supposed to go there for prayer, but to drink intoxicating liquor. – Saadi Shirazi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral? – Lewis Carroll	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind. – Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. – Gandhi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask. – Billy Graham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. – Tyron Edwards	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. – Phillips Brooks	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths. – Alexis Carrel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. – William Franklin Billy Graham	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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