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Quotes About Prayers

Poverty appeared first in their meals, then in their shoes, and finally in their thoughts and prayers. Still,
~ Dominic Smith
God still answers prayers, God still performs miracles. Heaven is real.
~ Don Piper
The toll of the "Mall shooting" was horrific, but not as bad as it could have been. Five dead and fourteen wounded. The aftermath was the usual—thoughts and prayers and talk about gun control and mental health and then absolutely nothing was done.
~ Don Winslow
The Unitarians never kneel. But I want to kneel. Later, I do at home by my bed. The oldest and best of prayers: Mercy.
~ Jenny Offill
God did not hear the prayers of the fearful, for the hearts of the fearful held no belief.
~ Jeremy Leven
He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any favors or for any different treatment than all the men were receiving.
~ Ernest Hemingway
One night, as I tucked my daughter into her bed, safe beneath her down comforter and properly lavished with kisses and hugs, and prayed for her safety, I unexpectedly sensed the unmistakable voice of Another addressing me in return. "I hear your prayers," this voice seemed to say kindly but sternly. "But I also hear the prayers every night of parents who can offer their children no protection.
~ Andy Crouch
No son los aros religiosos por los cuales saltamos, las oraciones que oramos, los pecados que confesamos, o incluso el pan de la Santa Cena que nos comemos, lo que demuestra nuestro amor por el Padre.
~ Andy Stanley
Every morning, after prayers, the pirate leader removed his black loincloth which was his only garb and bent over the poop in front of the altar while each of his men filed past him in devout silence, kissed his exposed arse and emitted a sharp bark of adulation while slapping his buttocks briefly with the flat of their blades.
~ Angela Carter
I am a faith healer. My prayers have immense power, which I utilise whenever I can.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
~ Daisy Ashford
I believe Ted Cruz is the candidate that's the answer to my prayers. A candidate whom God will use to restore the soul of America.
~ Steve King
Rahul Gandhi does not know Indian culture, so when he went to offer prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple, he sat in a position as if he was offering namaaz.
~ Yogi Adityanath
Science does not persecute. It does not shed blood—it fills the world with light. It cares nothing for heresy; it develops the mind, and enables man to answer his own prayers.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The presence of a lararium in the bedroom of emperors (Suet., Aug., 7, 2; Dom., 17, 5; see SHA, AS, 29, 2) suggests that morning prayers were said there.
~ Robert Turcan
The presence of lararia in some bedrooms gives reason to suppose that before going to sleep prayers were again offered to the gods. An idol of Fortuna (SHA, AP, 12, 5; S, 23, 5) watched over the sleep of the emperors. In his bedroom, Augustus also had a portrait of his great-grandson as Cupid, on which he would bestow a kiss each night when he entered (Suet., Cal., 7).
~ Robert Turcan
Can I aske forgiveness for someone else, someone whose already dead? Yes, you can. Of course you can. And you can give charity in their name and you can recite the Qur'an for their sake. All these things will reach them, your prayers will ease the hardship and loneliness of their grave or it will reach them in bright, beautiful gifts. Gifts to unwrap and enjoy and they will know that this gift is from you.
~ Leila Aboulela
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
~ Lewis Carroll
The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow not being worthy-sinners who have always been sinners and will forever more be sinners until we die. It isn't the most optimistic outlook I've ever heard but we're encouraged to keep trying anyway.
~ Libba Bray
All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.
~ Libba Bray
Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.
~ Bobby McFerrin
The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
For specific prayers, there are specific answers.
~ Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
Their Ethiop wives—sleek wineskins of black silk, Jellied and huge from drinking asses' milk Through years of tropical idleness, to pray For offspring (whom he ever sent away With prayers unanswered, lest their ebon race Might breed and blacken the earth's comely face).
~ Aldous Huxley