#prayer

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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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

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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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Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. ↗

— Mother Maribel

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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. ↗

— Walter Martin

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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

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Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

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When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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