#pray

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dreams #good #more #mr #prayer

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #freedom #god #ignorance #inadvertently

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. ↗

— Ovid

#fortune #prayers

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#giants #look #pray #sir #things

Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches. ↗

— Unknown

#kiss #love #pray #prayers #sincere

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#clean #fast #fat #his #lean

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal. ↗

— Rumi

#equality #prayer #equality

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barely #child #himself #into #language

Prayer in private results in boldness in public. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prayer #private #public #results