#prayer

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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I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#definitely #first #garbage #going #i

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? ↗

— Pierre Loti

#break #could #determination #duty #fast

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say. ↗

— Bob Marley

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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#artificial #burn #dance #does #energy

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#attended #church #decision #each #eternal

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. ↗

— George Muller

#enjoy #enjoyment #give #gone #make

The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, "It reminds me of straw. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#prayer #dreams

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#answered #breast cancer #cancer #effort #embryos