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  • ... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face... More
  • ... his voice and hands,
    Within whose warm spring rain of loving care
    Each dwells some... More
  • ...your Father knows what you need before you ask him.. More
  • A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. More
  • A fool there was and he made his prayer
    (Even as you and I!)
    To a rag and a bone and a... More
  • A secret lover is saying
    Three Hail Marys that she who knows
    The ways of women will... More
  • A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers. More
  • After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy... More
  • Ah my dear angry Lord,
    Since thou dost love, yet strike;
    Cast down, yet help... More
  • Ah, when shall come love’s courage to be strong!
    Tell me, O Lord—tell me, O Lord, how... More
  • All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer. More
  • And ever complex, ever taut, intense,
    You hear man crying up to Any one—
    “Be my... More
  • And pray for me also under the draughty stair.
    As we get older we do not get any... More
  • And prayer is more
    Than an order of words, the conscious occupation
    Of the praying mind,... More
  • And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray? More
  • And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. More
  • And that their sleep be sound
    I say this childermas
    Who could not, at one time,
    Have... More
  • As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. More
  • At daybreak, watched by the red and vigilant eye of the sun, before she sowed the corn, she... More
  • At Delphi I prayed
    to Apollo
    that he maintain in me
    the flame of the poem
    and I... More
  • Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent... More
  • Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was... More
  • Be thou our guard while troubles last,
    And our eternal home. More
  • Better that endless notes beseech
    As many nights, as many dawns,
    If finally God grants... More
  • Bid a strong ghost stand at the head
    That my Michael may sleep sound,
    Nor cry, not turn... More
  • Bow, stubborn knees, and heart, with strings of steel,
    Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe! More
  • But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his... More
  • But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in... More
  • Cap off
    and then what? The brains as
    helpless as oysters in a pint container,
    the... More
  • Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud,
    The land of spices; something understood. More
  • Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,
    For I am drowning in a stormier... More
  • Come down. Come down. Why dost
    Thou hide thy face? More
  • Composed in the Tower before his execution
    These moving verses, and being brought at that... More
  • Could I find a place to be alone with heaven,
    I would speak my heart out heaven is my need. More
  • Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:
    to see thee more clearly,
    love thee... More
  • Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let... More
  • Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of... More
  • D’Arrast: “Just tell me, has your good Jesus always answered your call?”
    The Rooster:... More
  • Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit movin’ in my heart, I will pray. More
  • Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a... More
  • Father of all! in every age,
    In every clime adored,
    By saint, by savage, and by... More
  • Father who endest all,
    Pity our broken sleep;
    For we lie down with tears
    And waken... More
  • Father, hear my prayer. Forgive him. As you have forgiven all your children who have sinned.... More
  • For a Benizon to fall
    On our meat, and on us all. More
  • For I pray that God will digest me. More
  • For Nym, he hath heard that men of few words are the best men,
    and therefore he scorns to say... More
  • Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
    supplication.
    Attend unto me,... More
  • God keep lead out of me! More
  • God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this... More
  • Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend
    From jealousy! More
  • grant me grace, O god, that I
    My life may mend, sith I must die. More
  • Great God! I ask thee for no meaner pelf
    Than that I may not disappoint myself;
    That in... More
  • Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. More
  • Hail Mary, full of me,
    Nibbling in the sitting room of my head.
    Mary, Mary virgin... More
  • Hannah was praying silently; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard; therefore Eli... More
  • Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change,... More
  • He heard her low accord,
    Half prayer and half ditty,
    And He felt a subtle... More
  • He prayed more deeply for simple selflessness than he had ever prayed before—and, feeling an... More
  • He prayeth best, who loveth best
    All things both great and small;
    For the dear God who... More
  • He that doth the ravens feed,
    Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
    Be comfort to my age! More
  • He was carrying our blood.
    One blood.
    To pray, Jesus knew,
    is to be a man carrying a... More
  • Hear me, O God!
    A broken heart,
    Is my best part:
    Use still thy rod,
    That I may... More
  • Hear, all-merciful, and touch
    the fore-head, dim, unlit of pride and thought. More
  • Here a little child I stand,
    Heaving up my either hand; More
  • Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
    To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
    To... More
  • How many councils and decrees
    Have perished in the simple prayer
    That gave obedience to... More
  • I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart. More
  • I am not yet born; O fill me
    With strength against those who would freeze my
    humanity,... More
  • I am not yet born; O hear me.
    Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or... More
  • I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
    To yield possession to my holy prayers. More
  • I did not pray Him to lay bare
    The mystery to me,
    Enough the rose was Heaven to... More
  • I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always... More
  • I hate it when people pray on the screen. It’s not because I hate praying, but whenever I see... More
  • I have always found that when men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on “the... More
  • I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God’s help. I pray... More
  • I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in... More
  • I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
    How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester! More
  • I nightly offer up my prayers to the throne of grace for the health and safety of you all, and... More
  • I pray for fashion’s word is out
    And prayer comes round again
    That I may seem, though I... More
  • I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in... More
  • I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and... More
  • I used to pray to recover you.
    Ach, du. More
  • I wouldn’t pray just for a old man that’s dead because he’s all right. If I was to pray,... More
  • If I am right, thy grace impart
    Still in the right to stay;
    If I am wrong, O, teach my... More
  • If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification... More
  • If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. More
  • In the hour of my distress,
    When temptations me oppress,
    And when I my sins... More
  • In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may... More
  • In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and... More
  • In Tsegihi,
    In the house made of dawn,
    In the house made of the evening twilight,
    In... More
  • Is not prayer also a study of truth,—a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever... More
  • I’m folding up my little dreams
    Within my heart tonight,
    And praying I may soon... More
  • I’m not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much... More
  • Lay me on an anvil, O God.
    Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. More
  • Let prayer
    be fire:
    admire,
    re-light,
    relate,
    regain. More
  • Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
    acceptable in thy sight, O... More
  • Look to your heart
    that flutters in and out like a moth.
    God is not indifferent to your... More
  • Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
    Where there is hatred let me sow love;
    Where... More
  • Make me thy Loome: thy Grace the warfe therein,
    My duties Woofe, and let thy word winde... More
  • May we two stand,
    When we are dead, beyond the setting suns,
    A little from other shades... More

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