#prayers

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'. ↗

— Dan Brown

#prayers #demons

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#always #bernard #few #had #hall

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#again #done #get #god #going

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enable #invented #people #poetry #prayers

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#drawer #filled #kinds #prayers

And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#corruption #forget #god #immorality #lead

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#am #ask #aware #ballots #confirm

There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be born later. It's only one way of many how God gives answers to human problems and prayers. ↗

— Toba Beta

#future #god #life #prayers #problem

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. ↗

— Robert Brault

#good #good intentions #intentions #most #object

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#answered prayers #become #big #boomerang #broad