#prayer

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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

— Horatio Alger

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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

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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

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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God. ↗

— John Buchan

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The best prayers have often more groans than words. ↗

— John Buchan

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I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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