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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best

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

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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. – Robert Brault

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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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My father prayed because he had a good Friend with whom to share the problems of the day. – Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

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And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray. – John Keble

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