#pray

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ↗

— Mary Austin

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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them. ↗

— Silas House

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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. ↗

— Charles Bent

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Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees. ↗

— Charles Bent

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