- 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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- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
- Schools
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm for prayer in schools.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Titan is the one place in our solar system whose geographical and atmospheric diversity and complexity are rivaled only by the Earth's. It's very Earth-like, but it's also very different, which means we have a lot to learn as well as a prayer of understanding what we find.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020