Prayers Quotes

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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God. — John Steinbeck
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these… — C.S. Lewis
Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before… — Michael Ondaatje
Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen… — Daisaku Ikeda
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… — Libba Bray
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… — Lewis Carroll
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said. — Mary Karr
And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his… — John Steinbeck
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,… — Charles Bukowski
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts. — Billy Sunday
Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait… — Epictetus
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the… — Thomas Pynchon
A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater… — Rabindranath Tagore
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing.… — Dan Brown
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love. — Paulo Coelho
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.… — Frederick Buechner
Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is.… — Sharon Shinn
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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