Prayers Quotes
979 quotes by 674 authors
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You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the…
— Walt Whitman
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Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were…
— Melina Marchetta
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The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The…
— Samuel Beckett
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
— John Knowles
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God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly…
— Andrew Murray
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. . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned…
— Leonard Cohen
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I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.
— Johanna Spyri
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There has come to you as your birthright something beautiful and sacred and divine. Never forget that. Your Eternal Father is the Great master of…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this…
— Robert Bloch
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Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.
— Laura Whitcomb
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your…
— Alice Walker
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I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.†I thought God probably laughed at them too,…
— Jean Plaidy
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Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek.…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
— Franny Billingsley
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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side†of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?
— Kristina McMorris
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