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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Prayer
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
Piety
Daisy Ashford

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Justice
Margaret Atwood

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Prayer
St. Augustine

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Prayer
Charles Baudelaire

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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Prayer
Henry Ward Beecher

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Prayer
Georges Bernanos

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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Courage
Dorothy Bernard

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Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1]
Trials
Bible

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Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]
Prayer
Bible

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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
Christians and Christianity
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Prayer
Robert Brault

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When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.
Lovers
Robert Bridges

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Wish and Wishing
Phillips Brooks

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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Burdens
Phillips Brooks

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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Prayer
John Bunyan

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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Grace
Robert Burns

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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
Pessimism
Damien Cannon

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We know little of the things for which we pray.
Prayer
Geoffrey Chaucer

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Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Writers and Writing
Charles Churchill

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Prayer
Alexander Cockburn

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Faith
Mason Cooley

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
Mind
Peter Daniel

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Prayer
Meister Eckhart

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Creeds
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun