#prayer

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

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Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

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I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself. ↗

— Harold E. Hughes

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#ignorance #prayer

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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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

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