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"Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer." »Omar Khayyam
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"Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer." »John Denver
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"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths." »Alexis Carrel
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"Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered." »George Meredith
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"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation." »Victor Hugo
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"the most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. the highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. the greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless." »William Franklin Billy Graham
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"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." »Ronald Reagan
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." »Ronald Reagan
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"Civilization is a stream with banks. the stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song." »Will Durant
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"For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?" »Lewis Carroll
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"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories." »John Wilmot
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"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice." »Meister Eckhart
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"the fewer the words, the better the prayer." »Martin Luther
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"To saints their very slumber is a prayer." »Saint Jerome
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"prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." »Johannes Meister Eckhart
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"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice." »Meister Eckhart
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"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God." »Saint Teresa of Avila
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"If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double." »Robert H Bork
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"children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves." »Francois Fenelon
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"Whose bread I eat his song I sing." »German proverb
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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"Those who wish to sing always find a song." »Swedish Proverb
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"In summer, the song sings itself." »William Carlos Williams
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"Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren." »Mary Steichen Calderone
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." »Mark Twain
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"A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward." »Phillips Brooks
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"Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask." »Billy Graham
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