#prayer

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer. ↗

— Janet Jackson

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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. ↗

— John Selden

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Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

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