Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.
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WILLIAM BARCLAY Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that... WILLIAM BARCLAY If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not ... LESLIE LUDY Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expressi... ELIZABETH GEORGE In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door. DAVID STEINDL-RAST Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer... WILLIAM BARCLAY We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray wh... OSWALD CHAMBERS Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Pr... F. W. KATES Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It i... MAHATMA GANDHI The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his wil... P. B. BROWN We must be studying the Word of God and spending time in prayer SUNDAY ADELAJA It is just a worship service and its focus is a time of guided prayer. AMANDA MILLER A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception w... DENNIS SHARPE True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, howev... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one pr... MADAME DE STAEL Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one pra... CHIANG KAI-SHEK Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through t... CLYDE DESOUZA Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body. JUVENAL There is a seeking out of the best in others, of that which is most ultimate in them, and exposing o... GREGORY VLASTOS The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that will our prayer. CATHERINE MARSHALL It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our ... CHARLES H. BRENT Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childis... ALEXIS CARREL Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks. OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No ... MASARU EMOTO Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Continuing a short series on prayer: Hunger may drive the runaw... GEORGE MACDONALD If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one... CHARLES SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one... CHARLES H. SPURGEON For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: /... BIBLE Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. MAHATMA GANDHI Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and o... NOTEBOOKS True prayer does not seek God’s help, but it focuses on what is good for everyday life and all of ... DEBASISH MRIDHA Prayer without faith is as futile as a body without breathe. ROBIN BERTRAM Prayer helps a lot. Lifting one another up in prayer, it helps a lot. All of us are going through di... GLORIA MILLS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise o... E. STANLEY JONES He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t... BROTHER LAWRENCE One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a pray... MARY ANTIN The best formula for a prayer that gives J.O.Y: J- 1st, Pray to JESUS O- 2nd, Pray f... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness. JOHN PAUL II Nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal, fervent prayer and its heaven-sent response. ... THOMAS S. MONSON Knowledge, and then love of G-d, is the homecoming all long for, the banquet or feast that... EDWARD WEISS If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absenc... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Whoever desire to prosper, must delight in prayer. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient,... L. LIONEL KENDRICK The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory ... DAVID A. BEDNAR Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heart... DAVID A. BEDNAR I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer. JANET JACKSON Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of pr... E. M. BOUNDS It is not by strength that one prevails. But by the grace of prayer in the spirit of perseverance. LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA Mr. Ayaa Kojo Armah said, "Keep praying as always. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to G... FRANK C. LAUBACH The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the m... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good. RICHIE NORTON Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing so... HENRI NOUWEN If the keys to a successful life in Jesus is discipline and prayer, when was the last time you held ... TRAVIS J HEDRICK Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep pr... ADAM HAMILTON True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitu... FRANçOIS FéNELON Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our ow... JOHN L. CASTEEL Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: It must be our anxious care, whenever we are ourselves press... JOHN CALVIN One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not... BROTHER LAWRENCE Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feelin... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Is it not possible that their prayer --- their intercession with God --- might in fact help bring ab... CARDINAL MAHONY We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fast... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacet... AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES Then when you have finished the prayer, remember Allah standing and sitting and reclining; but when ... QURAN The campus community is greatly saddened by the death of Adam Toombs and we continue to be in prayer... CHRIS WILLIAMS To see this mysterious existence, to feel it in the deepest core of your heart, and immediately a pr... OSHO St. Thomas is right. The essential prayer is the prayer of petition. VINCENT MCNABB As for meditation, I would like you to be a disciple of prayer, because without prayer there is no h... PETER JULIAN EYMARD My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the ... BOYD RICE To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persiste... EZRA TAFT BENSON The way to be a man of prayer, and be governed by its spirit, is not to get a book full of prayers; ... WILLIAM LAW I felt sorry for the inhabitants and went into the forest to admonish the wolf in God's name not to ... NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I r... MARY QUANT This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoist... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-o... RAMANA MAHARSHI Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support f... GEORGE BUTTRICK It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way... TROY POLAMALU My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You m... SONU NIGAM …be awake to the Life that is loving you and sing your prayer, laugh your prayer, ALLA RENéE BOZARTH The prayer of faith is a prayer of trust. The very essence of faith is trust. R.C. SPROUL In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced w... EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON We've been blessed with this opportunity to share our love and concern for others in our community t... DIANE PLOTZKE Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve... PHILLIPS BROOKS In times of great crisis, Americans have always turned to God and prayer for help and comfort. We ar... PATRICK J. MAHONEY God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love o... RICHARD CECIL Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer. MERCEDES LACKEY Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. OSWALD CHAMBERS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES
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EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself. EDWARD HOPPER We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. EDWARD BOND There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l... EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic. EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life. EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o... EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu... EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th... 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EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves. EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat... EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight. EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a... EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death. EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly... EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years. EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
... EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str... EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ... JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ... EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and... EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go. EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains. EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate... EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart. EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam... EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ... EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust. EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei... EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ... EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou... EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c... EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac... EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low. EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes. EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th... EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d... EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy... EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life. EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin... EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you... EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing. EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:... EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress. EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i... EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a... EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te... EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i... EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope... EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ... EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk... EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is. EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ... EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ... EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag... EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit... EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde... EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse... EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski... EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a... EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o... EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ... EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w... EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda... EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp... EDWARD GIBBON