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O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Sir Jacob Astley
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.
Soren Kierkegaard, The Prayers o
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
Mary Baker Eddy
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
Amelia E. Barr
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
Father mother god, help me to feel my oneness with you. Help me to feel my equality with my brothers and sisters
Paul Ferinni, from a prayer give
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
Desiderius Erasmus
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
Sir William Temple
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Jeremy Taylor
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Whatever is your best time in the day, give that to communion with God.
Hudson Taylor
An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man.
R. V. G. Tasker
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Robert Brault
Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
Dame Flora Robson
