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It is not eloquence, but earnestness, not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. – Hannah More, “Prayer,” Practical Piety

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Most people do not pray; they only beg. – George Bernard Shaw

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When prayers go up, blessings come down. – Author Unknown

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention — on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God — that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. – W. H. Auden

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. – Oswald Chambers

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