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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

“Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.”

World Way Spirit Water Prayer Effort Holy Blessing Holy Spirit Harvest

Book:Touch the World Through Prayer

Source: Touch the World Through Prayer

“Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.”

Play Moments Form Enjoy Water Prayer Cat Sight Glasses Caught Sunlight Chill Frost Twigs

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.”

Persons Able Water Prayer Sky Painting Wind Bed Each Day Being The Best Tonight Waking Dedication Barrels Best Person

Author:Morris Graves

“It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.”

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Author:George Muller

“The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.”

Ifs Causes Water Prayer Sea Rivers Seasons Fishes British Dues Hungry Swimming Ceremony Wizards Columbia British Columbia

Author:James G. Frazer

“This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.”

Wisdom Politics Water Prayer Economy Land Spring Garden Woods Liberalism Portions Adequate

Author:Horace

“When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.”

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Author:Lucretius

“Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.”

“Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.”

Needs Wells God Helping Stuff Water Prayer Figures Again And Again Fabulous Praying To God Old Woman Need Help

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.”

Source: Images: my life in film

“Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.”

Men Mind Heart Children Hands Spirit Purpose Water Prayer Lord Blessing Our Children Seeds Your Children Endeavor Weary

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.”

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.”

“I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.”

“Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.”

Thinking Way Wells Looks Mean Water Prayer Fine Holy Harm Touching Dessert Holy Water

Author:Christopher Hitchens