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  To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• I’m not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: ‘Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.’ Now, how awesome is that?

  Iyanla Vanzant

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• I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

  Iyanla Vanzant

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• I still say the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

  Rupert Sheldrake

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• Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to his: ‘Great G-d, grant that twice two be not four.

  Ivan Turgenev

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• Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite G-d, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect G-d and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

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• I have lived to thank G-d that all my prayers have not been answered.

  Jean Ingelow

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• He didn’t actually accuse G-d of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

  Clarence Day

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• There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

  Ivan Illich

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• Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese’s Pieces bag that pops out.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

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• Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

  Gary Busey

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• My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it’s harnessing the powers of your mind.

  Boyd Rice

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• Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.

  Frederick William Robertson

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• But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

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• The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

  Franz Kafka

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  Tags in Relationship, Prayer

• I do believe in the power of prayer.

  Geraldine Ferraro

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• Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

  Gerald Vann

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