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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.


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MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his ...
WOODROW WILSON Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I w...
BILLY RAY CYRUS The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God...
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ISAAC NEWTON Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, tea...
KARL RAHNER I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps.
PATIENCE JOHNSON O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would no...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
DARREN ARONOFSKY And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: T...
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JERRY FALWELL I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to st...
JOHN LE CARRE I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afra...
JOHN PIPER Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a p...
RAVI SHANKAR My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculou...
KATE WINSLET O Lord, don't let me start a task, if i won't be able to finish it..
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JOSH TURNER I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, fa...
LINDA THOMPSON I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I I am one of those faces that it's sometimes, 'Oh my God, you look so familiar, but I can'...
LINDSEY MCKEON God hears a mother's prayer.
VICTORIA GOTTI O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of I...
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FAISAL KHAN God, make me blind so i can never see her face again...God, make me deaf so i can never hear her voi...
JORDAN PETERS All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, G...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my fa...
MIKE GALLAGHER Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1
BIBLE Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1].
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BIBLE I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
KATE ADIE And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplication, with fasting, and sackcloth...
BIBLE 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short tr...
BRUCE COCKBURN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belie...
CATHERINE O'HARA I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!
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GEORGETTE HEYER May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
GEORGE S. PATTON JR. Jane Heard.
ONE We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better b...
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SUSAN HILL One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.
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MADHUR BHANDARKAR I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my busin...
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YOLANDA ADAMS I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to h...
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TAYLOR MALI It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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POPE JOHN PAUL II Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.
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MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
TERESA OF AVILA O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
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MAYA ANGELOU It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - a...
PAUL GIAMATTI It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at ...
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AKIVA BEN JOSEPH I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer...
ARTHUR MILLER The Lord God, the Giver of peace, has granted His Grace, I am rid of pain, sin and disease.
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MOBY I never really hated one true god
But the god of all the people I hated
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