Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me.… — George Muller Copy Share Image
What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty… — Wiley Blount Rutledge Copy Share Image
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
