#praying

In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that. What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines? Listen, all you have to do is start and There’ll be no stopping. What about mountains? What about water Slipping over rocks? And speaking of stones, what about The little ones you can Hold in your hands, their heartbeats So secret, so hidden it may take years Before, finally, you hear them? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#mystery #nature #poetry #praying #nature

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#fasting #god #more #please #praying

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#assume #enough #man #people #praying

No praying, it spoils business. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#praying #spoils

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#else #everybody #everybody else #feeling #i

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#eye #god #him #hit #i

The Indian race are waiting and praying. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#praying #race #waiting

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis. ↗

— Kesha

#destroy #hobby #i #i do #like

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#benefited #errand #god #gotten #i

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#church #hear #hum #i #i can