"You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through."
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"Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray."
"We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all."
"There must be people who pray even for those who never pray."
"The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted."
"Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up."
"If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell."
"As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide."
"To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God."
"By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived."
"We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor."
"When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven."
"Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God."
"You should never trust a person who prays in public."
"I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that."
"Pray for rain while digging a well."
"He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing."
"Never give a good politician time to pray."
"Seeing a cat loving her kittens stand and pray. God has become manifest there; literally believe this. Repeat "I am Thine, I am Thine", for we can see God everywhere. Do not seek for Him, just see Him."
"I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist."