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Quotes About Prayer

The central Christian thesis is to love. Love God, all your heart, mind, soul and flesh and love your neighbor as yourself -- that's the central thesis. It doesn't say anything about hating people anywhere in there, other than that that's not a good thing. And you're even to pray for your enemy. There have been many of us as Christians who have failed to practice the faith as it's called upon and that has been damaging to the faith and I regret that.
~ Sam Brownback
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was "thank you," that would be sufficient. —MEISTER ECKHART
~ Sam Keen
If Christians understood the purpose and goals of these terrorist groups, we would be driven to our knees to cry to God for a mighty outpouring of His Spirit. ISIS terror leaders have claimed to establish a "caliphate" (khilafa in Arabic, which means succession) in Syria and Iraq.
~ Sammy Tippit
In every living soul, a spirit cries for expression—perhaps this plaintive, wailing song of Jazz is, after all, the misunderstood utterance of a prayer.
~ Samson Raphaelson
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
~ Samuel Butler
of prayer. And so am I under certain circumstances. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he has wisely refrained from saying whether they are good things or bad things. It might perhaps be as well if the world were to dream of, or even become wide awake to, some of the things that are being wrought by prayer. But
~ Samuel Butler
"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!"In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:Hides from himself his state, and shuns to knowThat life protracted is protracted woe.
~ Samuel Johnson
Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God's not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe "thy will be done," and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting confident in this, that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.
~ Samuel Lee
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.
~ Samuel M. Shoemaker
I pray God to keep me from being proud.
~ Samuel Pepys
This morning came home my fine camlet cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.
~ Samuel Pepys
M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Pray for your adversaries; remember how many thousands of talents of sins your Master hath forgiven you. Forgive you, therefore, your fellow-servant's one talent.
~ Samuel Rutherford
God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Beneath this sodA poet lies, or that which once seemed he—Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C.!That he, who many a year, with toil of breath,Found death in life, may here find life in death.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That saints will aid if men will call:For the blue sky bends over all!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aku mencintaimu. Itu sebabnya aku takkan pernah selesai mendoakan keselamatanmu
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
barangkali hidup adalah doa yang panjang, dan sunyi adalah minuman keras. ia merasa Tuhan sedang memandangnya dengan curiga; ia pun bergegas.
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
Aku mencintaimu. Itulah sebabnya aku tak pernah berhenti mendoakanmu.
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
No holy place existed without us then, no woodland, no dance, no sound. Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless days we spent might be made twice as long. I prayed one word: I want. Someone, I tell you, will remember us, even in another time.
~ Sappho
Because I prayed this word: I want
~ Sappho
A deed your lovely face if not, winter and no pain I bid you, Abanthis, take up the lyre and sing of Gongyla as again desire floats around you the beautiful. When you saw her dress it excited you. I'm happy. The Kypros-born once blamed me for praying this word: I want
~ Sappho
for her dress when you saw it stirred you. And i rejoice. In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because i prayed this word: i want
~ Sappho