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There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence.

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

There is no Muslim version of 'love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you' or 'if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also'.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

The thought of a man being the murderer of his own daughter in the Twin Peaks was anathema to me. At the time, I had a 2-year-old daughter of my own, and that possibility really turned me off. I was praying that I wouldn't be the one.

The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.

Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.

To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.

Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

To pray diligently is more than half the task.

To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

To pray well is the better half of study.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

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

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.

Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.)

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. I am praying. I'm talking to you, right? Oh...yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!