"You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need."
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"When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray."
"When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying."
"I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own"
"Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling."
"To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege."
"What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?"
"You can't pray a lie -- I found that out."
"Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor."
"It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences."
"Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it."
"I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God."
"If you pray more you will pray better."
"No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray."
"I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer"
"A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor."
"We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself."
"We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense."
"Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it."
"I used to pray to recover you."