#prayer

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

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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me. ↗

— William Nicholson

#change

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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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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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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