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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude. – Terri Guillemets

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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. – William Inge

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The Lord longs to hear all of our concerns — any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. – Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

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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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