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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Bow, stubborn knees!
But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]
Common people do not pray; they only beg.
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.
If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]
Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.
My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
No one can pray well, but those who live well.
O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
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.
One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.
Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.
Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]
Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Prayer and practice is good rhyme.
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Prayer is a groan.
Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.
Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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.
Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Prayer is the voice of faith.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Seven days without prayer makes one weak.