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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
English Proverb
Please God, said the embryo, I think that You made me in the shape which I now have for reasons best known to Yourselves, and that it would be rude to change. If I am to have my choice I will stay as I am. I will not alter any of the parts which You have made for me, for other and doubtless inferior tools, and I will stay a defenceless embryo all my life, doing my best to make myself a few feeble implements out of the wood, iron, and other materials which You have seen fit to put before me. If I want a boat I will try to construct it out of trees, and if I want to fly, I will put together a chariot to do it for me.
T. H. (Terence Hanbury) White, T
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
Terry Pratchett
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
C.S. Lewis
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Chaucer
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
J. C. Macaulay
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Martin Tupper
Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.
Robert D. Foster
That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.
Mechthild of Magheburg
Prayer and practice is good rhyme.
Scottish Proverb
Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
Proverb
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
Peter Townsend
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart
Martin Luther King Jr.
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
