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“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.”

World Way God Christian Given Religious Prayer Praying Breaths Our World

Book:To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

Source: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.”

Giving Asks Given Prayer Praying Blessing Thanks Our Prayers

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“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

“So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.”

Done Moments Given Can Do Principles Changed Color Praying Letting Go Understood Surrender Release That Moment Purple Changed My Life

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.”

Thinking Way Want Believe America Lost Given Fine Praying Confused Ancestor

Author:Angie Harmon

“It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.”

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980

“Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.”

Source: CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…

“We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.”

Character Given Forget Quality Praying Highest Purity Unselfishness

Book:The Outlook

Source: The Outlook

“If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.”

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Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“It is a great good to be given over to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul, and no other thought, and she prays to God with a pure mind. When the soul is entirely given over to the will of God, then the Lord Himself begins to guide her, and the soul learns directly from God ... A proud man does not with to live according to the will of God. He likes to direct himself, and does not understand that man does not have enough understanding to direct himself without God.”

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Author:Silouan the Athonite

“As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.”

Giving Given Nations Answers Quality Trouble Praying Ethics Quality Of Life Sanctity Identifying Sanctity Of Life Hope And Pray

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.”

Night Given Praying Drink Breaths Fountain

Author:Florence Nightingale

“To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.”

Want Given Grace Praying I Pray

Author:Don Henley

“Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.”

Way Has Beens Hard Use Hands Life Is Night Fighting Evil Given Principles Struggle Feet Praying Drink Breaths Evening Wrestling Inches Fountain

Author:Florence Nightingale

“I pray at night, and I believe God has given me the gift to be able to perform in front of millions and millions of fans around the world. My faith in God has given me the opportunity to provide for my family and hopefully for generations to come.”

World Believe Able Night Opportunity Given I Believe Millions Generations Fans Fronts Praying My Family Around The World Hopefully Believe In God Faith In God I Pray

Author:Oscar Gutierrez

“Why does one need a doctor if God has given us our body and we pray to Him for our help?”

Ifs Needs Doe Helping Body Given Praying Doctors

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“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

“I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.”

Thinking Should Believe Dream Bigs Given Teach Praying Incredibles Scripture Thank God Our Dreams Big Things Small Gods

Author:Joel Osteen

“Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.”

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Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann

“No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.”

Ifs Should Firsts Matter Hard Play Able Jobs Given Pay Generations Talent Color Willing Hard Work Praying No Matter What Bills Who You Are You Choose Creeds Fifth God Given Talents

Author:Cory Booker

“Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.”

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Author:Pat Conroy

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”

Knows Want Giving Said Wanted Asks Given Know How Praying Thanks Sage Reverends

Book:The Works of Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. With Notes. By T. Francklin ... T. Smollett, M.D., and Others. A New Edition

Source: The Works of Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. With Notes. By T. Francklin ... T. Smollett, M.D., and Others. A New Edition

“The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.”

“Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!”