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"Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence."	Oscar Wilde
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."	Abraham Lincoln
"Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out."	Mark Twain
"The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort."	Will Rogers
"I asked God for strength, that I might achieveI was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey ...I asked for health, that I might do greater thingsI was given infirmity, that I might do better things ...I asked for riches, that I might be happyI was given poverty, that I might be wise ...I asked for power, that I might have the praise of menI was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God ...I asked for all things, that I might enjoy lifeI was given life that I might enjoy all things ...I got nothing that I asked for-but everything I had hoped forAlmost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.I am, among all men, most richly blessed."	Author Unknown
"May the road rise to meet you.May the wind be ever at your backMay the Good Lord keep you in the hollow of His hand.May your heart be as warm as your hearthstone.And when you come to diemay the wail of the poorbe the only sorrowyou'll leave behind.May God bless you always."	Author Unknown
"O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small."	Author Unknown
"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."	Author Unknown
"When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep."	Author Unknown
"Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God."	Author Unknown
"God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no."	Author Unknown
"What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four."	Author Unknown
"God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us."	Author Unknown
"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer."	Mother Teresa
"The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it."	Josh Billings
"I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion."	Jonathan Swift
"Most people do not pray; they only beg."	George Bernard Shaw
"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all."	Charles Dickens
"I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean [i.e., comport] ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation."	George Washington

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