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Andy Murray Tennis Player
Prayer

"Many Christians backslide...They are unable to stand against the temptations of the world, or of their old nature. They strive to do their best to fight against sin, and to serve God, but they have no strength. They have never really grasped the secret: The Lord Jesus will every day from heaven continue His work in me. But on one condition-the soul must give Him time each day to impart His love and his grace. Time alone with the Lord Jesus each day is the indispensable condition of growth and power."

Christian Jesus Prayer
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Prayer

"Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children."

Children Morning Prayer
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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
Prayer

"I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me."

Heart Love Prayer
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Prayer

"I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved... I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard."

Love Morning Prayer
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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Prayer

"I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do."

Believe Law Prayer
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Prayer

"... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God."

Hate Prayer God
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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Prayer

"The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God."

Prayer Purpose Special
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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
Prayer

"If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be."

Night Prayer Sky
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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
Prayer

"May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute."

Play Prayer Hair
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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
Prayer

"But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion."

Soul Prayer Essence
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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
Prayer

"We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying."

Science Simple Prayer
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Prayer

"I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return."

Prayer Wish Vanity
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