It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way... view

By: Sarah Palin

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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion... view

By: Michael Shermer

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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution... view

By: Bob Schaffer

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I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it... view

By: Henry Wilson

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God... view

By: Ivan Illich

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My longing for truth was a single prayer... view

By: Edith Stein

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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God... view

By: Soren Kierkegaard

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It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land... view

By: Rod Parsley

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Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat... view

By: Mother Maribel

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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you... view

By: E. Stanley Jones

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I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously... view

By: Catherine O'Hara

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