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Oleta Adams Singer, Songwriter
Praying

"Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Praying

"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."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Praying

"[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."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Praying

"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."

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Praying

"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."

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Elizabeth I Queen
Praying

"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."

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Esther Smith Artist
Praying

"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."

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Esther Smith Artist
Praying

"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."

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