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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.
by Naguib Mahfouz (Novelist, Egyptian , born in 1911) keywords: always, clearly, fasting, fellow, head, important, man, mat, more, prayer, praying, than, touching, treat , well I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
by Haruki Murakami (Writer, Japanese , born in 1949) keywords: able, am, before, book, books, die, each, finished, how, know, live, many, now, old, please, praying, takes, three, until, will, write , years The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
by Willie Nelson (Musician, American , born in 1933) keywords: came, care, house, just, lord, praying, take, up , whole Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
by Peace Pilgrim (Activist, American , born in 1908) keywords: awareness, ceasing, constant, even, god, nor, oneness, praying, state, without , words The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
by Francois Rabelais (Clergyman, French , born in 1493) keywords: agreeable, celestial, delicious, how, laughing, more, much, oh, oil, praying, scent, than , wine When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
by Jai Rodriguez (Actor, American , born in 1977) keywords: church, eye, god, him, hit, loves, mom, percent, praying, queer, said, she, support, told, too , were I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
by Samuel Rutherford (Theologian, Scottish , born in 1600) keywords: been, benefited, errand, god, gotten, making, myself, others, praying, something , them Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
by Georg Solti (Musician, Hungarian , born in 1912) keywords: against, although, both, did, disliked, faith, family, forced, inhibition, jewish, never, organized, others, practice, praying, really, rebel, religion, religious, sides, strange, then, today , were Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
by Robert South (Clergyman, English , born in 1634) keywords: against, earnest, man, measure, needs, praying, pressing, proceed, surer , temptation I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
by Howard Stern (Entertainer, American , born in 1954) keywords: african, any, around, between, difference, divided, face, hat, his, large, painting, parading, pope, praying, purse, religion, religions, rock, sickened, smoking, think, wearing , white Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
by Whitley Strieber (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: amen, associated, completion, egyptian, ends, everytime, god, gods, name, prayer, praying, say, someone, still, their, western , world In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
by Marlo Thomas (Actor, American , born in 1937) keywords: able, being, could, deep, express, family, feelings, find, found, gotten, journey, lives, only, our, out, praying, purpose, realizing, strength, talk, through , way
