Prayer is the act of addressing a god or spirit for the purpose of worship or petition. Specific forms of this may include praise, requesting guidance or assistance, confessing sins, as an act of reparation or an expression of one's thoughts and emotions. The words used in prayer may take the form of intercession, a hymn, incantation, words of gratitude, or a spontaneous utterance in the person's praying words. Praying can be done in public, as a...
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Prayer
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- Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
- All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
- Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
- Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
- If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. -- Psalms 66:18
- Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.
- Bow, stubborn knees!
- I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.
- Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
- Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. -- I Samuel 12:23
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