#prayer

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

#knees #loving #might #neighbour #our

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God. ↗

— John Buchan

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The best prayers have often more groans than words. ↗

— John Buchan

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I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#now #prayer #right #school #tell

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#book #books #dying #give #just

I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#badly #catholic #catholic church #church #going

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. ↗

— Martin Luther

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