Adam Clarke Quotes, Christian Quotes, Prayer Quotes

Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

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Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

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Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

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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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His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

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I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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He prayeth best who loveth best.

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Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

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When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

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So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

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Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

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Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

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