The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.

Margaret Sartor

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Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy

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According to Benedict's scheme, the community reads through... the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed... to all the despairing, doubtful, bitter, vindictive, jingoistic, nationalistic, and seemingly racist passages in the Psalter. It is not that every sentiment expressed by a psalmist is admirable, but that in praying the Psalms, we confront ourselves as we really are. The Psalms are a reality check to keep prayer from becoming sentimental, superficial, or detached from the real world.

Richard H. Schmidt

Tags: christianity prayer theology psalms

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A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

Paulo Coelho

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]

John F. Kennedy

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When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

James Hudson Taylor

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The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Andrew Murray

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Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all.

W.B. Yeats

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I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!

For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!

Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson

Tags: sin prayer guilt missed-chances sins-of-omission

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