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| I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. ~ Richard J. Needham |
| When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing – nothing. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi |
| "Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. ~ P.J. Wingate |
| Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ~ Søren Kierkegaard |
| No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. ~ Guy H. King |
| Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. ~ Philip Melanchthen |
| Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige |
| The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. ~ William McGill |
| Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~ Samuel M. Shoemaker |
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| Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. ~ Author Unknown |
| Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~ Author Unknown |
| I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ~ Frederick Douglass |
| Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ~ Austin O’Malley |
| As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~ Author Unknown |
| When we talk to God, we’re praying. When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic. ~ Jane Wagner, |
| We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ~ Oswald Chambers |
| When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. ~ Author Unknown |
| When a man is at his wits’ end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. ~ Oswald Chambers |
| Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~ B. Graham Dienert |
| Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~ Author Unknown |
| Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant |
| Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~ Philip Henry |
| The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. ~ Will Rogers |
| When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ~ John Bunyan |
| And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray. ~ John Keble |
| Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude. ~ Jessi Lane Adams |
| I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. ~ Josephine Baker |
| Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. ~ Oscar Wilde |