"Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . ."
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"Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction."
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"What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree."
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"I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever."
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"I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself."
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"Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell."
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"Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there."
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"Prayer ardent opens heaven."
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"Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words."
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"The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law."
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"I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer."
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"Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves."
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"Your tears are my prayers."
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"I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. First in English. Then in Italian. And then - just to get the point across - in Sanskrit."
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"I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers."
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"I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever."
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"I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!"
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"Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer"
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"That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan."
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"I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix."
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