#prayer

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#business #daily #daily bread #empty #empty stomach

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosary but the words are empty - dry gourds rattling in the silence. The dark is terrible and I feel so alone. I see no signs but the symbols of contradiction. I try to dispose myself to faith, hope and charity, but my will is a blown reed in the winds of despair. ↗

— Morris L. West

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My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. ↗

— Frank R. Wolf

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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves. ↗

— William Gurnall

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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. ↗

— William Gurnall

#faithful #last #longer #lost #never

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it. ↗

— Anne Heche

#anything #because #broke #ellen #ever

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#desserts #fine #good #got #harm

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

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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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