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“Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"”

Ifs I Can God Happens Today Waiting Can Do Wonder Lord Morning Trouble Praying Wake Up Say Anything Godly Dickens

Author:Bill Vaughan

“God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.”

People Done God Church Lines Company Praying Speech Built Gods Will Gas Assembly Unifying

Author:Sarah Palin

“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.”

Firsts Humor Funny Religion Church Week Failure Praying Six Sunday Crops Sowing Going To Church Oats Church On Sunday

Author:Fred Allen

“If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.”

Ifs World Whole Turns President Church Watches Praying Clubs Whole World Hilarious

Author:Kid Rock

“Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.”

Life Mind Heart Body Blood Honesty Praying Red Grateful Fullness Saviour Truth And Honesty Fullness Of Life Grateful Love

Book:The Excellence of Our Calling: An Abridgment of Phillips Brooks' Lectures on Preaching, by Thomas F. Chilcote, Jr

Source: The Excellence of Our Calling: An Abridgment of Phillips Brooks' Lectures on Preaching, by Thomas F. Chilcote, Jr

“And sometimes when I am weary, When the path is thorny and Wild, I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight, Back to the eyes that smiled. And pray that a wreath like a rainbow May slip from the beautiful past, And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love And keep me, and hold me fast.”

Life Looks May Sometimes Eye Past Beautiful Strong Path Sweet Praying Slips Twilight Crowns Rainbow Weary Hold Me Wreaths Strong Love

Book:The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

Source: The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

“You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.”

Love Life Littles Long Strong Praying Affection Long Life Pray Love

Book:Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...

Source: Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...

“My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!”

Life Praying Curse Merry Praying To God Cupid Old Love

Book:The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele

Source: The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele

“Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.”

May War Peace Praying Civil War Passing Away American Civil War Ubuntu Mighty God Scourge Christian Heritage Inaugural Address Us Civil War

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“A few really dedicated people can offset the masses of out of harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter, we must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can. We must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and know that peace is possible. What we dwell upon we help bring to manifestation. One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. Many people giving some of their time can make history.”

People Thinking Knows Way Giving Littles Persons Helping Speak Peace Inspire Praying News Mass Harmony Manifestation Dedicated Inspire Others Pray For Peace

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.”

Way Mean Littles Politics Waiting Praying Harder Patient Prosperity Spending Be Patient

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.”

Thinking Men Made Ideas Form Religion Religious Praying Heretic

Book:The cause

Source: The cause

“And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach.”

Should Use Seems Religion Evil Enemy Practice Hell Love You Mines Praying Damn Deities Love Your Enemies

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.”

“Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.”

Men May Wisdom Age Together Fire Praying Saint Holiness Sand One Man Impress Footprint Together As One Sands Of Time

Book:Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

Source: Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

“Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.”

World Two Work Violence Praying Notes Resorts Two Days Overdue

Author:Mark Twain

“As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.”

Men Inspirational Young Praying Worthy Young Man I Pray Inspirational Celebrity

Author:Brendan Fraser

“When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.”

Heaven Praying Yoga Sincerely Invitations Hearted

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.”

Body Hands Age Strong Answers Rich Health Praying Yoga Lifestyle Old Age Block Ties Wellness Healthy Living Good Health Jupiter Living Healthy

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.”

Children Age Special Praying Calling Battle Fellows Aging Workers Engaged Grandmother Grandchildren Fellow Workers

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“No one can pray and worry at the same time.”

Prayer Worry Praying Max

Book:Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose

Source: Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose

“Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.”

Ifs Children Persons Spiritual Existence Brother Praying Worship Concern Treats Passionate Deny Neighbor Encounters Brothers And Sisters Child Of God Validity

Author:Desmond Tutu

“There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.”

World Together Suffering Growing Praying Working Together Teamwork Volunteer Volunteerism Praying Together

Author:Mother Teresa

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.”

Men Giving Dies Teach Atheism Praying Lifetime Atheist Fishes Agnostic There Is No God If There Is A God There Being No God Funny Atheist Funny Fish Teach A Man To Fish

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.”

Men Asks Literature Position Praying Deeds Gods Will Bless Farmers Harvest Wheat

Book:Above Life's Turmoil

Source: Above Life's Turmoil

“Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.”

Inspiration Spiritual Lying Spirituality Found Prayer Praying Deep Down Huckleberry

Book:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.”

Soul Body Literature Praying Clean Fats Cleanliness

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.”

Ifs Giving Long Soul Church Fire Praying Beer Pleasant Long Day Ale

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my "plan" was for taking down the Christmas tree.”

“Pray Meditate Be aware.Stay awake Bow Practise yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax.Enjoy.Laugh.Play Create.Envision Let Go/Forgive.Accept Walk.Exercise.Move Work.Serve.Contribute Listen/Learn.Enquire Consider.Reflect Cultivate oneself.Enhance competencies Cultivate contentment Cultivate flexibility Cultivate friendship and collaboration Lighten up Celebrate and appreciate Dream Give thanks Evolve Love Share.Give.Receive Walk softly.Live gently Expand.Radiate.Dissolve Simplify Surrender.Trust Be born anew”

“We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!”

“Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.”

Way Heart Shows Asks Praying Mates Spouse

Author:Willie Aames

“There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.”

“Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.”

Sometimes Prayer Attitude Praying Horizon Altered Amazing Things

Book:Prayer: A Holy Occupation

Source: Prayer: A Holy Occupation

“When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit, praying therewith for the overthrow of all the works of Satan done through the evil powers.”

Done Spiritual Spirit Evil Prayer Attitude Ought Praying Believer Satan Combat Domain Good Christian

Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.”

Attitude Praying Bad Attitude

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my shadow, yet God, as being very tender of me, hath suffered me to be molested, but would with one Scripture or another, strengthen me against all; insomuch that I have often said, Were it awful, I could pray for greater trouble, for the greater comfort's sake.”

Looks Said Support Greater Trouble Praying Comfort Shadow Encouragement Adversity Sake Scripture Awful Puritan Support And Encouragement

Book:The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country...

Source: The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country...

“The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.”

Home Earth Science Return Praying Safety Crew Columbia Space Shuttle

Author:George W. Bush

“Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.”

Feels Firsts Humans Kind Has Beens Book Spiritual Certain Humanity Prayer Human Beings Silence Greater Meditation Progress Events Praying Fellows Response Dialogue Urges Communion Continuum

Author:Aberjhani

“The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.”

Facts Spiritual Spirituality Prayer Perfect Praying Monk Not Perfect

Author:Anthony of Padua

“When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of many, or a friend's betrayal, we must be able to pray in such a manner that an abiding faith and a strong testimony that the Lord will be with us to the end, will compel us to say, "Nevertheless, Father, Thy will be done, and with Thy help, in patience I will follow firmly on the path that takes me back to Thee."”

“The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.”

Running Jesus Sacrifice Humility Praying Devil Crosses Catholic Humble Running Away Jesus Love

Author:Anthony of Padua

“I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.”

May War Dies Blood Crime Praying Innocent France Execution Shed Last Words I Pray Pardon Praying To God Dying Last Words I Pray To God

Author:Louis XVI of France

“The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.”

War Church Praying Glory Honour Survivor Praying To God Total War

Author:Alexander Suvorov

“When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.”

Long Healing Journey Adventure Praying Teens

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.”

Waiting Atheism Praying Atheist

Book:Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations ...

Source: Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations ...

“Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.”

Knows Simple Answers Talking Praying Atheist Do You Know I Pray

Author:Peter O'Toole

“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.”

Ifs Want Trying Children Religion Praying Our Children Atheist Your Children Polio

Author:Carl Sagan

“So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”

Thinking Men Long Peace Behinds Praying Kings Get Up Hobbies Highways Eccentric Eccentricity

Author:Laurence Sterne

“The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.”

Children Long Mother Prayer Gone Mom Praying Impression Long Life Our Prayers

Author:Dwight L. Moody