#pray

With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed. ↗

— Niki Taylor

#blessed #did #go #had #healthy

Each one prays to God according to his own light. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#each #god #his #light #own

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little. ↗

— Morris L. West

#faith #prayer #faith

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#else #everything #knowledge #like #more

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. ↗

— Charles Bent

#desires #god #man #means #much

The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#imagination

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills. ↗

— Cory Booker

#american #apply #bills #choose #color

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David. ↗

— William Brewster

#david #gather #prayer #reading #singing

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#equal #powers #pray #pray for #tasks

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#i #i do #lighter #load #pray