#prayer

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 does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#change #changes #does #god #him

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#blend #breathe #creep #each #earthly

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. ↗

— Chiang Kai-shek

#greater #his #meditation #more #own

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#celestial #god #lab #leading #makes

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

— Frank Sinatra

#basically #bottle #daniels #gets #i

It could have been me. And just the hope and prayers that, you know, if, if the shoes were switched, that you know, Laci would do the same thing for me. ↗

— Amber Frey

#could #hope #just #know #me

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.' ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

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We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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