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PRAYER: What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four. (Unknown source)
PRAYER: Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)
PRAYER: There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. (Erica Jong, U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, who figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)
PRAYER: Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. (Russian proverb)
PRAYER: Call on God, but row away from the rocks. (Indian proverb)
PRAYER: Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first. (Arab proverb)
PRAYER: Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone . . . who alone can deliver us from solitude. (Unknown source)
PRAYER: Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. (Francois de Fenelon, French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet, and writer, 1651-1715)
PRAYER: Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape. (Austin O'Malley, U.S. ophthalmologist, professor of English literature, and author of aphorisms, 1858-1932)
PRAYER: If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees. (Fred Beck, U.S. major league baseball player, 1886-1962)
PRAYER: The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience. (O. Hallesby, Norwegian Lutheran theologian, author, and educator, 1879-1961)
PRAYER: All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week. (Duffy Daugherty, U.S. football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1915-1987)
PRAYER: Do not pray by heart, but with the heart. (Unknown source)
PRAYER: Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. (Adam Clarke, British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar,1762-1832)
PRAYER: Most people do not pray; they only beg. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
PRAYER: Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
PRAYER: O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. (William Penn, English colonial proprietor, Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)
PRAYER: Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand. (Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian Catholic deacon and preacher and one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226)
PRAYER: Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. (Ruth Graham, U.S. Christian author, most well known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, 1943-2007)
PRAYER: It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. (C.S. Lewis, British writer and lay theologian. 1898-1963)
PRAYER: Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand. (Hippocrates II, Greek physician who is often referred to as the Father of Medicine,” c. 460 – c. 370 B.C.E.)
PRAYER: God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. (German proverb)
PRAYER: Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. (Sophocles, one of three [ancient Greek playwrights [Aeschylus and Euripides] who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496-406 B.C.E.)
PRAYER: Visualize, prayerize, actionize, and your wishes will come true. (Charles L. Allen, U.S. ordained United Methodist minister whose First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas became the largest Methodist congregation in the world at 12,000 members. 1913-2005)
PRAYER: Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer. (Unknown source)
PRAYER: A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward. (Unknown source)
PRAYER: When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. (Unknown source)
PRAYER: Prayer is the key, but faith unlocks the door. (The Bible)
PRAYER: Prayer is the world's greatest wireless connection. (Unknown source)