Compunction Quote by Hannah More Download Open image “Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.” — Hannah More ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compunction Earnestness Eloquence God prayer Inspirational prayer Prayer Prayer life Prayers not being answered Thoughts and prayers
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention. — Umar Copy Share Image
Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“Prayer is wonder, reverence. Prayer is receptivity for the miracle that surrounds you. Prayer is surrender to the beauty, to the grandeur to this… — Osho Copy Share Image
Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts. — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic...… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both;… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
