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"I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow."
"Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom."
"Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]"
"Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching."
"A good prayer is master of anothers purse."
"Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any of them. You get the response depending on how much you need it."
"Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited."
"Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world."
"We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources that God has given you - your energy, your prayers and your money - in this work to which God has called us."
"Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence."
"I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer."
"Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God."
"Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now."
"Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God."
"Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking."
"The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me."
"Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation."
"It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer."
"Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land."
"By prayer, community is created as well as expressed."
