"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
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"Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul."
"I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?"
"No prayer is complete without presence."
"It is said that when you miss someone... then love will come when you meet again... Just like the game of hide and seek, no matter where it hides or even if you can't see it... He must be there waiting somewhere for me...Amid the countless chaos... Just like the sincerest prayers... two people in love will surely meet again."
"I’ve had enough, this is my prayer, that I’ll die living just as free as my hair."
"God answers prayer in His own way, not ours."
"Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth."
"a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ."
"I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me."
"You cannot petition the lord with prayer!"
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway."
"Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles."
"I cannot neglect prayer for a single day."
"Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky."
"Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny."
"Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod."
"Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life."
"Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day."
"Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us."