"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."

Barrie, Sir James M. on past   

"Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!"

Bliss, Edwin C. on past   

"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present."

Brown, Les on past
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"Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future."

Campolo, Tony on past
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"O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me."

Astley, Sir Jacob on prayer
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"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

Augustine, St. on prayer
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"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."

Beecher, Henry Ward on prayer   

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

Bernanos, Georges on prayer   

"So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

Bible on prayer
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"But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]"

Bible on prayer
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"Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]"

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

Bierce, Ambrose on prayer
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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."

Brooks, Phillips on prayer
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"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on prayer
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"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Bunyan, John on prayer
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"We know little of the things for which we pray."

Chaucer, Geoffrey on prayer   

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."

Eckhart, Meister on prayer
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"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."

Foster, Robert D. on prayer
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"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

Franklin, Benjamin on prayer
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart."

Graham, Ruth on prayer
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"I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for."

Grimke, Angelina on prayer
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"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes."

Hillesum, Etty on prayer
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"Prayer is the voice of faith."

Horne, William Van on prayer
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"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees."

Hugo, Victor on prayer
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"There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God."

Illich, Ivan on prayer   

"Religion is in the heart, not in the knees."

Jerrold, Douglas William on prayer
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"Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you."

John of the Cross, St. on prayer
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"Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on prayer
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament."

Lawrence, Brother on prayer   

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."

Lessing, Doris on prayer   

"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."

Luther, Martin on prayer
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"It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen."

Macaulay, J. C. on prayer   

"Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list."

Michalski, Stan on prayer
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