"For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?"
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"if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing"
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"I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair."
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"Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work."
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"Jenks laughed, taking to the air and saying, “Give it up, FIB man. It’ll take more than you to get her out. Remember what Ivy and I did to your finest last spring? Add Rachel to that, and you can say your prayers.” From behind me came Edden’s dry “You think Ivy wants another stint as a candy striper?"
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"I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers."
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"The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer."
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"Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer."
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"Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork."
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"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water."
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"Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits."
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"As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own."
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"We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways."
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"Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life."
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"The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers."
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"[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan."
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"I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up."
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"Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer."
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"There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children"
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"I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results."
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