- Flowers
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an East London borough that is about 38% Muslim, among the highest in the U.K. As I walked down Whitechapel Road, the adhan, or call to prayer, echoed through the neighborhood.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.
- Gospels
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is - like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that's where that's a challenge.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
- Nov 07, 2020
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk to yourself and what you say morning, noon and night about what you want to happen in your life. Some folks call that creative visualization. Other people call it prayer. But it is about that message that you send out there to yourself.
- Fasting
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- Nov 07, 2020