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“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.”

Thinking Way Life Sometimes Use Pain Beautiful Joy Fall Sound Water Prayer Silence Sky Praying Happenings Very Good Crowds Odd Over You Fourth Floats Rockets July Very Beautiful

Author:Frederick Buechner

“God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.”

Ifs Believe Doe Sometimes Done Wisdom Desire Belief Waiting Prayer Answers Attitude Cases Happened Setting Settings Answers To Prayer True Faith Personal Desire

Book:A Guide to Confident Living

Source: A Guide to Confident Living

“Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.”

Trying Sometimes Asks Opportunity Stuff Prayer Worship Supplication

Author:Francis Collins

“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

“Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.”

Sometimes Asks Heaven Prayer Path One Thing Intention Arguing Mysterious Addresses Allowing Delay Quarrels Hybrid Dubious Mysterious Things

Author:Jose Saramago

“That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.”

Has Beens Sometimes Form Spirit Lost Prayer Streets Holy Mad Humble Retiring Modest Closets Stalking Starks Meek Loveliness

Author:Asahel Nettleton

“Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.”

Heart Persons Sometimes Hands Moving Prayer Praying Hands Of God

Author:Mark Driscoll

“God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'”

Sometimes Prayer Answers

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.”

Firsts Wells May Sometimes Helping Asks Prayer Decision Situation Substitutes Evident

Author:George W. Romney

“In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826

“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

Sometimes Mother Prayer Baby Mouths Fingers Hunger Starving Thrust Like A Mother

Author:I. L. Peretz

“My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.”

Sometimes Sports Prayer Wonder Trouble Please Let Me Constant These Days Swings Sometimes I Wonder Choppers

Book:The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952

Source: The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952

“Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.”

Feels Stills Sometimes Helping Spiritual Prayer Audience Music Is Singing Connected Spiritual Life

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“There's always this problem in society where people know they need these places for social peace, but the fundamentalists want to shut them down. Sometimes that's for economic reasons, because they want to build a supermarket there. The imam will hold a prayer and say let's get rid of the girls, but on the other hand they're all going there.”

People Knows Want Needs Sometimes Reason Problem Hands Girl Social Prayer Economic Supermarkets Problems In Society

Author:Michael Glawogger

“...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.”

Sometimes Prayer Ministry Communion Exquisite Petitions

Book:God - Our Contemporary

Source: God - Our Contemporary

“Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.”

Ifs May Sometimes Courses Prayer Wise Creatures Essence Refuse Foolish Granted Grants Finite Compulsion Request

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer." But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him.”

People Ifs Believe Sometimes Helping I Believe Felt President Prayer Praying Busy I Believe In Signals Intercessory Prayer

Author:Ronald Reagan

“While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.”

“We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.”

Knows Sometimes Heaven Prayer Answers One Day Refusal Truest

Book:The Soul of Prayer

Source: The Soul of Prayer

“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 wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.”

Want Mind Heart Sometimes Prayer Answers Want U Consumed Giver Answers To Prayer

Book:Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

Source: Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

“The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!”

Men Heart Sometimes Feelings Spiritual Prayer Lord Cry Tears He Man Quiet All Things Let Me God Love Abundance Prize Shed Flood Favour Vehemence True Heart

Book:The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

“Sometimes when we see or hear of a need, there is nothing we can do to help. Sometimes the only thing we can do is pray. But never underestimate the power of the prayers of the righteous.”

Needs Sometimes Helping Can Do Prayer Praying Righteous Underestimate Never Underestimate

Author:Merrilee Boyack

“Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer.”

Way Firsts Sometimes Christian Literature Force Prayer Strange Saint Desert Episodes Parallels

Book:Contemplation: A Christian Path

Source: Contemplation: A Christian Path

“I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.”

Knows Men Should Sometimes Prayer Forget Alive He Man Lucky Yeah Upstairs Good Prayer

Author:Rodney Atkins

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”

Way Needs Sometimes Difficult Challenges Prayer Teach Support Greater Journey Praying Needed Blessing Members Defense Temptation Our Family Mortality Earnest Heartfelt Family Members

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.”

People Thinking Want Giving Feels Mind I Can Sometimes Girl Fighting Winning Energy Prayer Watches Praying Harder Court Want Me I Pray Of My Mind Praying For You

Author:Serena Williams

“Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

People Thinking Sometimes Prayer Magic Land Mines Bullets Rockets Wrong Time

Author:John Shelby Spong

“There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.”

Ifs Humans May Two Soul Sometimes Turns Prayer Common Liberty Practice Sea Particular Worship Hundred Conscience Jew Ships Combination Fallen Woe Compelled Protestants Commonwealth Hinges

Author:Roger Williams

“The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law.”

Important Sometimes Law Prayer Tradition Weight Blessed Biblical

Author:Elie Wiesel

“It doesn't really matter so much what the words are I don't think - maybe if you're a real expert in prayer you could do it through silence. But I think sometimes it helps to express it and to know you're expressing it to God. Paul talked about praying with your spirit and that's basically what it is, it's expressing what you feel deep down in a language which God gives you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Feels Real Sometimes Matter Helping Spirit Language Prayer Silence Praying Experts Deep Down

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“"Alleluia" song is a street hymn in the sense that it's all about culture.It's almost a juxtaposition of the prayers of the world and the prayers of the culture and how we sometimes put an "amen" after crazy things. So it's really just that tension between madness and simplicity.”

World Sometimes Song Culture Prayer Crazy Madness Simplicity Tension

Author:Jonathan Jackson

“God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.”

Sometimes Helping Feelings Prayer God Knows

Author:Anne Graham Lotz