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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

  Robert Southey

  Father, Men, Locks

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 1 (1799) See Carroll 9

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• Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.

  Peter Steele

  Pain, Suffering, Earth

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• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prayer, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Needs, Use, Kingdoms

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• Every day I pray about all I do.

  Dolly Parton

  Praying

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• ... I pray... that you may discern your affairs in a manner pleasing to God and may so act and endeavor that you may find Christ, as He even now cooperates with you, and in time to come will bestow on you abundantly the enjoyment of the illumination that comes from Him. Do not follow the wolf instead of the shepherd (cf. Mt. 7:15), nor enter into a flock that is diseased (cf. Ezek. 34:4). Do not be alone by yourself?

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Illumination, Cfs

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• When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

  Etty Hillesum

  Silly, Should Have, Sake

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.494, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered.

  Og Mandino

  Prayer, Victory, Gold

  Og Mandino (1998). “The Greatest Gift in the World”, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.

  Regina Brett

  Prayer, Real, Believe

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• Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.

  Jessica Hahn

  Faye, Praying, Wanted

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• I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Religious, Jesus, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Praying, Modern, Educated

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Sleep, Night, Worry

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

  David Allan Coe

  Infidelity, Praying, Adultery

  Song: Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat, 1995

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• As I lay me down to sleep, this I pray. That you will hold me, dear. Though I'm far away, I whisper your name into the sky. And I will wake up happy.

  Sophie B. Hawkins

  Romantic, Sleep, Sky

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• I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

  Kiki Smith

  Spiritual, Catholic, Praying

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• Please, touch me, I pray.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Praying, Touch Me

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “The Intern”, p.37, jessINK

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• As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

  Rebecca Wells

  Sweet, Forgiving, Praying

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• Obviously I pray every day there's less casualty.

  George W. Bush

  Praying, Casualties

  "Defiant US says Falluja dead were rebels" by Rory McCarthy and Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

  Valmiki

  World, Heroic, Praying

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• I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sleep, Praying, I Pray To God

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 716-21, Gargantua, Book I, Chapter XLI, 1922.

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

  William Shakespeare

  Player, Mouths, Lines

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

  Winfield Scott Hancock

  Care, May, Fields

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• CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Jesus, Mean, Heart

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Children, Insomnia

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1993). “A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova”, Shambhala Pubns

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