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“For I've finally realized that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.”

People Ifs Way I Can Moments Helping Eye Faces Given Praying Stronger Raises My Way Given Up

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When we pray for forgiveness, let us say, "my temper," or "untruthfulness," or "pride," "my selfishness, my cowardice, indolence, jealousy, revenge, impurity." To recognize our sins, we must look them in the face and call them by their right names, however hard. Honesty in confession calls for definiteness in confession.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“Tis not for golden eloquence I pray, A godlike tongue to move a stony heart-- Methinks it were full well to be apart In solitary uplands far away, Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray, Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.”

Wells Heart Dream Faces Moving Wonderful Sweet Praying Solitude Tongue Golden Far Away Solitary I Pray Eloquence Spray Godlike Rosy Sweet Face

Author:Frederick Tennyson

“Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.”

Mean Faces Behinds Laughing Struggle Praying Betrayal Your Face Praying For You Behind Your Back

Author:Trent Shelton

“Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.”

“We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.”

Men Earth Faces Praying Scary

Author:R. L. Hymers, Jr.

“I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.”

Enough Faces Heaven Prayer Mystery Praying Lays Rose Smell

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Think of the moment you count most foul in your life; conjure it, supplicate, pray to it; your face is bleak, you retract, you dare not remember it.”

Thinking Moments Remember Faces Fear Praying Dare Your Face Foul Bleak

Book:Heliodora: And Other Poems

Source: Heliodora: And Other Poems

“Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.”

Should Looks May Faces Levels Sacrifice Praying East Look Up Divinity Temples Statues Altars

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.”

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Author:Lance Armstrong

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.”

I Can Two Today Faces Reading Hours Prayer Meditation Praying Blessing Pure Enlightenment Let Me Asking Gods Will Setting Settings Get Up Refreshing

Author:Bonar Law

“I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.”

Two Faces Water Hours Sleep Praying Calm Eight I Pray Smile On My Face

Author:Vidya Balan

“We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."”

“It seems like things are upside down [in America] as we see right declared as wrong, and wrong as right. God is not pointing His finger at the Supreme Court, or the White House, or the Capitol. If you are a Christian, He is looking at you and at me to humble ourselves, pray, and seek God's face. He expects us to take action.”

Ifs Seems Action Christian America Faces House White Praying Court Fingers Humble Supreme White House Supreme Court Pointing Upside Down Capitol

Author:Greg Laurie

“You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.”

People Play Faces Lying Enjoy Praying I Pray

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“The challenge may not go away when you pray, and when it doesn't go away, it simply means God believes that He has trained you enough to face it and win.”

Believe May Mean Enough Faces Winning Challenges Praying Going Away

Author:Chris Oyakhilome

“I`d like to address the people of Flint. Your families face a crisis. A crisis you did not create and could not have prevented. I want to speak directly, honestly and sincerely to let you know we are praying for you, we are working hard for you, and we are absolutely committed to taking the right steps to effectively solve this crisis.”

People Knows Want Hard Faces Speak Steps Praying Crisis Committed Solve Honestly Our Family Addresses Sincerely Praying For You

Author:Rick Snyder

“Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.”

“Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.”

Use Today Faces Used Religious Enemy Teaching Modern Century Praying Kings Slavery Toms Uncles Luther Twentieth Century Resisting Defenseless Ku Klux Klan Plantations Uncle Tom Bloodhounds

Author:Malcolm X

“There is not enough time in the day to address all these challenges we face. I pray for wisdom in prioritizing issues and working on the things God would intend, so one day we too will hear those words: "Well done, my good and faithful servant."”

Wells Done Enough Faces Challenges Issues Praying One Day Faithful Servant Addresses I Pray Enough Time Well Done Prioritize Challenges We Face Not Enough Time Faithful Servants

Author:Steve Daines

“And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.”

Faces Jesus Given Forever Praying Drink One Day Delight Thee Grants Fountain I Pray Loving Jesus

Book:Historia Abbatum Auctore Anonymo

Source: Historia Abbatum Auctore Anonymo

“When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.”

Men Faces Praying Easier Stronger Confusion Peril Weariness Carelessness Women Of God Easier Life

Book:So You Want to Grow

Source: So You Want to Grow

“I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.”

People Thinking Faces Differences White Atheism Rocks Painting Praying Atheist Smoking Hats Divided Pope Purses

Author:Howard Stern

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

Inspirational Humor Faces Science Time Hope Nature Inspiring Path Mankind Praying Despair Historical Hopelessness Deep Thought Extinction Crossroads Urban Design Utter Despair

Author:Woody Allen

“The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.”

“God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities. God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can't if you don't pray, and He can't if you don't dream. In short, He can't if you don't believe.”

“O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens.”

“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.”

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Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.”

People Knows Believe Wells Seems Would Be Pain Faces Responsibility Nice Praying Tragedy Lays Shoulders Being Nice Envied

Author:Jodi Picoult

“You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)”

Hands Faces Night Fall Walks Air Cry Baby Praying Skins Ears Presses Lays Calm Blow Moonlight Ribs

Author:Joyce Maynard

“He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.”

Moments Eye Faces Night Felt Rooms Accepting Morning Praying Tiny His Eyes Pairs That Moment Every Morning Elephants Bathroom Looming Underpants

Author:Nicole Krauss

“One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.”

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Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In such times as we are in, whether the threats be global or local or in individual lives, I too pray for the children. Some days it seems that a sea of temptation and transgression inundates them, simply washes over them before they can successfully withstand it, before they should have to face it. And often at least some of the forces at work seem beyond our personal control. Well, some of them may be beyond our control, but I testify with faith in the living God that they are not beyond His.”

Should Wells May Children Seems Faces Individual Force Sea Praying Should Have Threat Locals Temptation Transgression Individual Life

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.”

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“The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”

Ifs World Way Life Should May Soul Done Dream Faces Order Prayer This World Praying Comfort Pure My Soul Customs Thyself

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.”

Firsts Heart Faces Mother Heaven Baby Praying Sinner Gladness

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.”

Source: Life Together