"The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington · Prayer · 0 fans >>
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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 · Prayer · 2 fans >>
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"To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer."

Auden, W. H. · Prayer · 0 fans >>
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"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

Augustine, St. · Prayer · 5 fans >>
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"Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on."

Barr, Amelia E. · Prayer · 0 fans >>
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"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."

Baudelaire, Charles · Prayer · 1 fans >>
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"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."

Beecher, Henry Ward · Prayer · 1 fans >>
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"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us."

Bernanos, Georges · Prayer · 1 fans >>
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"So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

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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 · Prayer · 1 fans >>
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