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“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”

Men Made Young Prayer Meetings Young Man Necks Knives Fifteen Scandal Kneeling Prayer Meeting

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.”

Children Made Waiting Prayer Special Mankind Direct Communicate Available Access All Time God Love Instant

Book:Touch the World Through Prayer

Source: Touch the World Through Prayer

“The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.”

Made Prayer Aim Moved Filled Paint Made It Awe Affected Composition

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.”

“It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.”

Made Would Be Religion Prayer Christianity Lord Praying Raises Harvest Revival Thrust Laborers Timely Revival Prayer Raise Up

Author:Arthur W. Pink

“Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!”

Mind Made Stills Prayer Office And Love Praise Imperfect Communion Blessedness

Book:The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

“Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.”

Knows Needs Feels Doe Made Said Asks Father Prayer Information Creation Praying Creatures Likes God Love Invites Partnership Our Prayers Apostles Inviting God Is Love

Author:Philip Yancey

“Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.”

Source: The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas

“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”

Love Made Hands Seems Young Literature Prayer Pity Soil Caress

Author:Andre Gide

“Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer”

Feels Made Sometimes Feelings Life Is Force Prayer Greater Ignorance Instinct Invisible Intuitive Extinction Invincible Communes

Book:The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose

Source: The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose

“In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.”

Ifs Men Doe Made Names Enjoy Differences Prayer Sea Rivers Trade Killing Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Sigh Pious Fisherman Ejaculation

Book:I Go A-fishing

Source: I Go A-fishing

“After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.”

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Author:Miroslav Volf

“Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.”

Want Giving Made Lasts Beautiful Prayer Known Duty Dear Careful Thanks Be Careful Request Thanksgiving Day Supplication

Book:Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks

Source: Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks

“But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.”

Made Hands Faces Heaven Causes Prayer Numbers Danger Changed Kings Army Shame Extremes Neglect Daring Stretching Jupiter Romulus

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.”

Men Children Has Beens Made Home Spiritual Parent Natural Prayer Simple Asking Constant Convinced Heavenly Spiritual Life Receiving Intercourse Children And Parents

Book:How I Know God Answers Prayer

Source: How I Know God Answers Prayer

“Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.”

People Made Political Given Prayer Moral Rich Easier Conscience Charity Credit Titles Wheels Rich People Signing Bribery Ransom Cheques

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.”

Made Ends Use Turns Prayer Goodness Elements All Things

Author:Julian of Norwich

“You are the dream I live with; you are the wish I'd made, the name I always whisper in every prayer I pray ... now that you left me, while you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams.”

Made Dream Names Left Wish Prayer Forget Praying Lost Love I Pray Forget Me You Left Me

Author:Rick Trevino

“Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.”

Made School Christian Religious Prayer Effects Unconstitutional Prayer In School

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.”

“A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.”

Made God Prayer Selfish Unseen

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“I am sure that there are many Christians who will confess that their experience has been very much like my own-that we had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, as they were of the Master. Such humility is not a thing that will come on its own. It must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith and practice.”

Should Heart Long Has Beens Made Christian Desire Realizing My Own Prayer Known Lord Practice Special Objects Humility Masters Features Disciple Meekness Lowliness

Author:Andy Murray

“Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.”

Way Made Prayer

Book:Through the year with Wesley: an anthology

Source: Through the year with Wesley: an anthology

“We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.”

Made Philosophy Prayer Offers Capable Treats

Book:A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

“When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He . . . had heard that Mr. Duche . . . deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche . . . might be desired to read prayers to the Congress . . . . After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.”

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Author:John Adams

“Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'”

People Ifs Believe Made Said Stills Law Belief Prayer Offers Hills Again And Again Observers

Author:Francis Bacon

“Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.”

Made Prayer Answers Accepting Gods Will Confession Petitions

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.”

Firsts Made Winning Prayer Steps Clear Land Lessons Tradition Congress First Steps Founders Continental

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“IN THE BEGINNING I undertook my walking not only to contact people, I undertook it as a prayer discipline to keep me concentrated on my prayer for peace... After the first few years the prayer discipline was completely unnecessary, because I had learned to pray without ceasing. I made the contact so thoroughly that into my prayer consciousness I put any condition or person in the world I am concerned about and the rest takes place automatically.”

People World Years Firsts Persons Made Prayer Consciousness Conditions Praying Discipline Walking Concerned Contact Unnecessary

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.”

Has Beens Made Prayer Answers Discovery Answers To Prayer

Author:Isaac Newton

“Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.”

Long Made Moving Prayer Late Saint Pace Piety Refined Sainthood

Book:Power Through Prayer

Source: Power Through Prayer

“Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.”

Made Eye Prayer Empty Vain Orange Musk Gourds Parakeets

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.”

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.”

Made Prayer Answers Ought

Author:J. I. Packer

“It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of prayer. I would have thought a truck of food. A day of prayer. Now, maybe I'm mistaken here and, again, I'm not a scientific expert, but isn't a hurricane officially an act of God? Isn't a day of prayer kind of redundant? Hasn't God already made up his mind on that sort of thing? So we do a day of prayer. The President has his stupid day of prayer. Three days later, Hurricane Rita hits. Somebody must have said something... something like, is that all you got?”

Mind Kind Made Said Three President Prayer Five Plans Stupid Upset Experts Mistaken Truck New Orleans Hurricanes Redundant

Author:Jon Stewart

“I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think the jury is out, still out. I haven't made any final decisions on him, but I've been surprised at times. I agree with him about one thing absolutely - George W. Bush said recently that he believed in prayer and exercise. So do I.”

Thinking Has Beens Made Said Stills Moments Prayer Decision One Thing Havens Exercise Absolutes Agree Finals Skeptical Jury

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.”

Made Prayer Secret Silence Doors Thousand Garden Secret Garden

Book:Community and Growth

Source: Community and Growth

“We made the song a big part of the story [Sausage Party ] itself, in that it's kind of their prayer that they say every morning, because we found that just to have an arbitrary song felt too unrealistic within the reality of our talking food movie.”

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Author:Seth Rogen

“Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity.”

World Made Prayer Right Now Filled Islam Hypocrisy Our World

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination. But early on in my walk of faith I said a very personal prayer and made a commitment to God. I said if you reveal yourself to me in a way that is more thrilling and powerful and exciting than anything I've experience thus far, then I'll go anywhere and do whatever you want. And that can be very tough.”