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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Prayer, Inspiration

• Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to his: ‘Great G-d, grant that twice two be not four.

  Ivan Turgenev

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• Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite G-d, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect G-d and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

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• I have lived to thank G-d that all my prayers have not been answered.

  Jean Ingelow

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• He didn’t actually accuse G-d of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

  Clarence Day

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• There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

  Ivan Illich

  Topics in God

  Tags in Prayer

• Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in God, Inspirational, Religion

  Tags in Prayer

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in God, Inspirational, Religion, Soul

  Tags in Prayer

• God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese’s Pieces bag that pops out.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

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  Tags in Prayer, Bag

• Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

  Gary Busey

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• My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it’s harnessing the powers of your mind.

  Boyd Rice

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• Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.

  Frederick William Robertson

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  Tags in Forget, Prayer

• But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

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• The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

  Franz Kafka

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  Tags in Relationship, Prayer

• I do believe in the power of prayer.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Prayer

• Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

  Gerald Vann

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  Tags in People, Prayer, Things

• The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

  Georges Bernanos

  Topics in God

  Tags in Prayer

• I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

  Steven Cojocaru

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  Tags in Prayer, Makeup
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  I have come to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

  Rumi

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Heart, Prayer