"Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation."
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"Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent."
"I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess."
"There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life."
"From people who merely pray we must become people who bless."
"Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard."
"I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing."
"Pray about everything and worry about nothing. You will enjoy life much more."
"The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray."
"Courage is fear that prays."
"I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day."
"[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions."
"Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!"
"I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life."
"I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray."
"Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to."
"We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan."
"Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am."
"We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray."
"It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue."