#pray

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention. ↗

— Rick Allen

#drum #even #further #going #i

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#confession #fasting #himself #night #passing

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

#arises #bears #between #communion #double

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#embrace #music #only #prayer #sexual

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ↗

— Mary Austin

#how #i #know #learned #much

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#answered prayers #more #over #prayers #shed

Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them. ↗

— Silas House

#prayer #trees #nature

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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