- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer Quotes
On faith, ritual and quiet persistence.
One quote takes an unusually historical angle, noting that ending a prayer with Amen actually invokes an ancient Egyptian deity linked to completion. A much simpler line calls prayer the single most important thing the speaker does each day.
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- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not proud that, in my time, I've tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
- Grabbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!
- Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020