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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than one

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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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. – Socrates

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God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. – Richard J. Needham

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