#prayers

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#dammed #i #know #make #me

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#devotion #devout #except #feel #force

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#been #bit #character #gambling #got

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#answered prayers #more #ones #over #prayers

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#ceasing #continuance #desire #longing #prayer

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#act #consoles #entrust #even #fact

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

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

#assisting #certain #come #could #devil

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767) ↗

— Voltaire

#humor #prayers #religion #ridicule #satire

What is more powerful than the love of a mother? What possesses more strength than her humbly whispered prayers? Perhaps only God's hand in answering those earnest pleadings on your behalf. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#love #mom #mother #mother-s-day #motherhood