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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Prayer is the voice of faith."

Horne, William Van 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 a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma 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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"When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer."

Conwell, Russel H. on prayer    Share

"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered."

Cohen, Leonard on prayer    Share

"Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts."

Buttrick, George 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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"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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"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 as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

Augustine, St. on prayer
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"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

Franklin, Benjamin on change
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man."

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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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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Buscaglia, Leo on friends and friendship
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"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

Bruyere, Jean De La on friends and friendship
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely"

Brown, Pam on friends and friendship
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on friends and friendship
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."

Billings, Josh on friends and friendship
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"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on friends and friendship
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"The best time to make friends is before you need them."

Barrymore, Ethel on friends and friendship
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"Half wits talk much, but say little."

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?"

Franklin, Benjamin on riches
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."

Franklin, Benjamin on kindness
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance
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"Honesty is the best policy."

Franklin, Benjamin on honesty
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"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."

Franklin, Benjamin on art
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