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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.”

“When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far down below / on his bed of dirt from grave / from his dank and silent cave / he watches you yet has no sight / he taketh you away at night”

Ifs Knows Men World Wells Soul Earth Night Can Do Watches He Man Praying Bed Sight Silent Graves Holes Mortals Dirt Caves Slender Dank Visits You

Book:Slenderman, Slenderman - And Other Terrifying Tales

Source: Slenderman, Slenderman - And Other Terrifying Tales

“All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.”

People World Moving House Prayer Darkness Sun Five Praying Elements Shadow India West Wave East Each Day Iron Globes Components Praying To God Magnet Ripple Mecca Filing House Of God

Book:A Suitable Boy

Source: A Suitable Boy

“Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!”

World Praying Wake Up Disaster Clock Alarms Shouting Pray Love Alarm Clocks

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?”

World This World Praying Thee Heroic Virtuous I Pray

Author:Valmiki

“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

“Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.”

World Lying Duty Praying Welfare

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.”

Thinking World Years Humans Stills Shows Understanding Numbers Laughing Cry Praying Structure Paint Preserves Curse Detest

Author:Janice Tanton

“The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.”

World Soul Moments Stories Dies Heaven Sound Dying Students Praying Servant Climbs That Moment Roof Clay Vessel Places In The World Rabbi Huts

Author:Jonathan Rosen

“I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.”

Source: Secret Power

“If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.”

Ifs World Firsts Persons Steps Praying First Steps Better Place True Friend

Author:Nick Vujicic

“The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.”

World Firsts May I Can Feelings Lasts Remember Praying Degrees Glory Stranger Thread Consistency I Pray Homo Sapiens Desolation

Book:The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

“Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.”

Men World Night Dark Prayer Praying Owl Hoot

Author:Austin O'Malley

“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place.”

Thinking Knows World Country Moving Building Praying Shapes Work Out Block Optimistic Makeup Better Place Realist Building Blocks Things Work Out

Author:Shirley Temple

“I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.”

World Made War Soul Country Suffering Sacrifice Praying Ultimate Paid Pledge Devastation Shrines Ultimate Sacrifice

Author:Shinzo Abe

“You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.”

Ifs World Night Sleep Break Cry Praying One Day Safe Spells Only Time Time Will Tell Hope And Pray Only Time Will Tell

Author:Siobhan Fahey

“My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.”

Knows World Wells Children Dies Heaven Born Gone Hell Trouble Dying Praying Swear I Pray

Author:Laura Nyro

“There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint out horror in most hideous shapes: whil'st men unhors'd, horses unmast'red, stray'd, some call'd on those whom they most dearly lov'd, some rag'd, some groan'd, some sigh'd, roar'd, promis'd, pray'd, as blows, falls, faintness, pain, hope, anguish mov'd.”

Men World War Pain Fall Fields Praying Horror Shapes Red Horse Breaths Sacred Lays Paint Blow Funeral Anguish Sigh Hideous Rags Trunks Prodigals Headless

Author:William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.”

World Wells May Whole Church Enemy Praying Increase Catholic Unity Charity Violent Whole World Wander Crush Stability Lacking Scandal Catholic Church Heresy Crafty Schism

Book:Private Prayers

Source: Private Prayers

“When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.”

World Heart Moments Helping Dream Spiritual Purpose Universe Strange Flower Praying Resources Creator Gods Will That Moment Our World Joyous Triumphant

Author:Catherine Marshall

“The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, 'Lord, teach us to preach'; Lord, teach us to do miracles,' or 'Lord, teach us to be wise'...but they said, 'Lord, teach us to pray.'”

Men World Said Jesus Responsibility Lord Teach Wise He Man Praying Miracle Supreme Shoulders They Said Initials Request Being Wise

Book:Billy Graham in Quotes

Source: Billy Graham in Quotes

“I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.”

World Children Littles Made War Seems Might Able Peace Progress Praying Promise Stupidity Repetition Crawling

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.”

People Ifs World Writing Wells Kind May Important Asks Wonder Praying Asking Paint Asking Questions

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.”

Ifs World Whole Religion Prayer Praying Illness Proof Whole World Mortality Immune Immune System Enhancement

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.”

World Prayer Praying Changing The World Don't Change Relinquishing Relinquishing Control

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.”

People World Way Might Force Silence Praying Lovers Speech Waste Breaths Amazed Great Love Unspoken Great Lovers

Author:Mary Webb

“Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.”

World Looks Christ Saws This World Praying Look Up Contempt

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.'”

Thinking World Persons Has Beens Home Jobs Next Force This World Praying Let Me Flight Location

Author:Erin Cummings

“Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.”

World Trying Hard Reality Christian Can Do Praying Creatures Be Good Holiness New World Easter Baptism Can Do Something

Author:N. T. Wright

“We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love.”

“So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence”

World Should Mean Doe Real Earth Political Order Jesus Heaven Social Prayer Acting Existence Praying Kingdoms Real World Excluded Kingdom Come

Author:Dallas Willard

“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.”

“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 really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either that or taking our chances in a society with no values at all. For all Americans the former carries certain risks, but the latter spells certain doom. For now, we should not be deflected by theological debate from the life-saving tasks awaiting us. There is work to be done. We must ensure that America will continue to be part of God's plan for the world.”

Source: America's Real War

“Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.”

World Christian Christ Modern Fool Praying Endure Sake Scary Sophisticated Destined Scorn Melting Modern Society

Author:Antonin Scalia

“Country music and the world will miss George Jones. He was someone who set a high standard in our industry for great music and lyrics that tapped into the emotions of the human heart at a very deep level. His music has touched the lives of country music lovers for over five decades. My prayers are with his family and I pray for the repose of his soul. May you rest in peace, brother.”

“If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.”

Ifs World Believe Mean Existence Half Mystery Praying Deeper Believer Deities Deeper Meaning

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a child. Every day children are coming under the influences of the world. So all these events we can pray for daily. And we can be a Keeper of the Flame with the Maha Chohan”

World Giving Children Life Is Influence Events Praying Birth Flames Keepers Giving Birth Day Life Carrying A Child

Author:Elizabeth Clare Prophet

“The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.”

World Important Ends Care Jobs Spiritual Order Hours Pleasure Our Lives Praying Take Care Income Our Family Dependent Waking Distraction Spiritual Life Altars

Author:Michael Huffington

“Does anyone pray before they cut a tree? I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the timber industry. But my vision is that that day is coming. I have a vision of a world in which we relate to each other as souls - not as personalities - not as bodies and minds and capabilities to accomplish things in this domain of the five sense, but as immortal spirits learning together how to co-create this world.”

World Mind Doe Soul Body Together Spirit Vision Five Cutting Tree Havens This World Personality Industry Praying Accomplish Relate Immortal Capability Domain Mind And Body Timber

Author:Gary Zukav

“Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.”

World Christian Opportunity Social Issues Praying Unique Social Issues Participating Proclaiming Unique Opportunities Proclaiming The Gospel

Author:David Platt

“If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved.”

Ifs World Would Be Christian Millions Praying Saved Rosary Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary

Author:Pope Pius X

“I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal and sacrilegious; where power is no longer equated with the blade, but with the holy chalice: the ancient symbol of the power to give, nurture, enhance life. And I not only pray, but actively work, for the day when it will be so.”

Men World Giving Peace Praying Holy Ancient Symbols Partnership Nurture Conquest Domination Suicidal Blades I Pray Sacrilegious Chalice

Author:Riane Eisler

“Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.”

World Made Real Helping Belief Praying Help Me Investigation Belief In God

Author:George Coyne

“I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.”

World Believe I Can Choices Christ Study Praying Six Revelations Outsiders Genesis Praying To God

Author:Anne Rice

“The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.”

World Way Helping Hands Stars Love Is Atheism Praying Shining Lips Bliss Paradise Vague Pray Love

Book:Lectures.- v.5-7. Discussions.- v.8. Interviews.- v.9. Political.- v.10. Legal.- v.11.-12. Miscellany

Source: Lectures.- v.5-7. Discussions.- v.8. Interviews.- v.9. Political.- v.10. Legal.- v.11.-12. Miscellany

“The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.”

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Author:Andy Murray

“Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.”

World Father Realizing Prayer Secret Objects Praying Chiefs Heavenly Occupation Worldly Heavenly Father Alone With God

Author:Andy Murray