#prayer

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#always #available #forget #love #never

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#became #before #died #extinct #father

My longing for truth was a single prayer. ↗

— Edith Stein

#prayer #single #truth

Prayer is mans greatest power! ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#mans #power #prayer

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#chant #i #lot #makeup #pancake

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#constitutional #constitutional amendment #extreme #failure #fuel

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#any #anything #ever #gave #god

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#religion #faith

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#prayer #song #faith