"The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."
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"The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer"
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"The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own."
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"The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic."
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"By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God."
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"A church that likes power likes prayer."
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"Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you."
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"Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace."
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"It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught."
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"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness."
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"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon."
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"It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty."
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"The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature."
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"Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him."
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"The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer"
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"After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century."
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"Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people."
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"People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or do. In such cases, like abortion or prayer or prohibition or sexual identity, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law."
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"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."
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"Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place."
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