“ God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. ”
- Israel Zangwill- Copy
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“ If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance. ”
- Mignon G. Eberhart- Copy
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“ Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One one feat is possible — not to have run away. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
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“ And I think we're going to have a healthier and a better educated workforce if the president's budget requests for increases are approved. ”
- Thad Cochran- Copy
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“ The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
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“ Leaders don't force people to follow — they invite them on a journey. ”
- Charles S. Lauer- Copy
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“ He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
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“ In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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