Laozi Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Prayer Quotes

Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

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Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

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"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Spring Quotes

How do we find the Lord? I believe we have to seek Him in simple things. I believe we have to seek Him in personal prayer. I believe we must seek Him in personal service. I believe we seek and find Jesus when we follow His example.

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What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

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Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.

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Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

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"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque, lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and laws.

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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

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Men and women of integrity, character, and purpose have ever recognized a power higher than themselves and have sought through prayer to be guided by that power. Such has it ever been. So shall it ever be.

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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Humility Quotes

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Heart Quotes