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"I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer."
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
"Prayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul."
"Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory."
"The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile."
"Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile."
"I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers."
"A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will."
"Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty."
"If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you."
"The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions - anger, jealousy, etc - to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago."
"Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer"
"This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen."
"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."
"Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah."
"I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him."
"The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him."
"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
"God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill."
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
