#pray

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#blend #breathe #creep #each #earthly

I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me. ↗

— Alveda King

#god #him #i #i love #love

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#dammed #i #know #make #me

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#i #i think #lord #powerful #prayer

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. ↗

— Chiang Kai-shek

#greater #his #meditation #more #own

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell. ↗

— Richard Russo

#continued #good #good health #got #head

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#benefited #errand #god #gotten #i

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

#desired #efforts #end #never #people

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel? ↗

— Adam Savage

#get #i #knees #know #our