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

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

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Prayer
St. Teresa of Avila

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
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Ivan Illich

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Mark Twain

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

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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Seneca

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
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Jeremy Taylor

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
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Sir William Temple

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde

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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
Prayer
Indian Proverb

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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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Norman Vincent Peale

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Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?
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Lily Tomlin

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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Benjamin Franklin

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You can't pray a lie.
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Mark Twain

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
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(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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