"He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much."
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"You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."
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"Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God."
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"Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all."
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"Whoever prays twelve rakats during the night and day, a house will be built for him in paradise. Four before dhuhr, and two after, two rakats after maghrib, two rakats after ishaa, and two rakats before fajr prayer."
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"Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide."
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"Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure."
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"The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have."
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"All great art is a visual form of prayer."
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"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."
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"The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him."
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"Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!"
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"Prayer is our essential lifeline to God's throne and heart."
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"What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!"
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"Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together."
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"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."
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"I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe."
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"With enough of us connecting heart with heart, center with center, innovation with innovation, prayer with prayer, through the internet and the noosphere, we can have a major impact on a more gentle transition toward the next stage of evolution."
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"Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal."
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"the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat."
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