#pray

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse. ↗

— Willie Aames

#better #god #heart #mate #pray

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#contradiction #here #hoped #involved #merely

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. ↗

— Aesop

#heard #our #pray #prayers #strive

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#ask #consolation #find #i #me

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #god #grace

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ↗

— Fred Allen

#crop #days #each #failure #first

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. ↗

— James Allen

#bless #bring #deeds #farmer #forth

Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills. ↗

— Ray Simpson

#christianity #contemplation #contemplative-prayer #god #nature

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. ↗

— David Antin

#always #ancient #anxiety #began #deficiencies