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Att be är som att öppna en sluss mellan det stora havet och våra små kanaler, medan tidvattnet stiger och strömmar mot land. | Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) |
Be, och låt Gud oroa sig | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
Be, så ska ni få. Sök, så ska ni finna. Bulta på, så ska det öppnas för er. | Bibelen |
Bön är inte att övervinna Guds tvekan, den är att gripa tag i Guds villighet. | Phillip Brooks |
Bönen rör vid den hand som rör vid världen. | Ukjent |
De som alltid ber, är nödvändiga för dem som aldrig ber. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
Den som ber ödmjukt, ber om ett nej. | Lucius Annæus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65 f.Kr.) |
Du kan göra mer än att be - men bara efter att du har bett. | Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978) |
Du kan inte snubbla när du sitter på knä. | Ukjent |
Där pengar finnes, kärlek vinnes | Russisk Ordtak |
En människa är störst när hon böjer knä. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
Gud finner man lättare genom bön än genom diskussion. | Bernhard av Clairvaux |
I sin enklaste betydelse är bönen bara en önskan riktad till Gud. | Phillip Brooks |
Jag har många gånger tvingats ner på knä i den överväldigande vetskapen om att jag inte hade någon annanstans att ta vägen. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
Jag vet ju att redan en önskan att be är en bön och att Gud inte begär mer. | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) |
Kristna och kameler tar emot sina bördor liggande på knä. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
Livets tragedi består inte i obesvarade böner, utan i obedda. | F. B. Meyer |
När du ber, är det bättre att ditt hjärta är utan ord, än att dina ord är utan hjärta. | John Bunyan (1628-1688) |
Vem kan räkna alla de böner som sänts upp till gudar som inte existerar? | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
Vet du vad som är fel på världen i dag? Det finns för många teologer och för få knäböjande. | Dallas F. Billington |
Vi ber ofta om silver, men Gud ger oss guld. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. | Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) |
When prayer is legislated, you infringe on other people's rights | Arthur Goforth |
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man | Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) |
Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things. | Burton Hills |
Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars. | Dana Carvey (1955-) |
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. | Edwin Keith |
I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away. | Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515) |
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. | Guy H. King |
Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere | Gypsy Rose Lee (1914-1970) |
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. | Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. |
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life | Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) |
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. | Josephine Baker (1906-1975) |
He said: The prayer of you both has indeed been accepted, therefore continue in the right way and do not follow the path of those who do not know. (Jonah 10.89) | Hadith |
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good No, Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good When the levee breaks, mama you got to move | Led Zeppelin |
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. | Martin Fraquhar Tupper |
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of Love, and | Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) |
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. | Mother Maribel |
Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite | Peter Daniel |
Prayer is the voice of faith. | William Van Horne |
I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door | Annie Dillard (1945-) |
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. | Epicurus |
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. | George Meredith (1828-1909) |
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world | George Sand (1804-1876) |
He said: My Lord! surely my bones are weakened and my head flares with hoariness, and, my Lord! I have never been unsuccessful in my prayer to Thee. (Marium 19.4) | Hadith |
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. | Leonard Cohen (1934-) |
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. | Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough. | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. | Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) |
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. | Phillip Brooks |
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men | Richard Baxter |
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself | Samuel Rutherford |
Prayer is a groan. | St. Jerome |
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
All prayers are answered if we are willing to admit that sometimes the answer is "no | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. | Josephine Baker (1906-1975) |
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
Prayer is the voice of faith. | William Van Horne |
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. (Hebrews 13:18) | Bible |
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction | Richard Cecil |
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. | Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) |
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. | Aesop |
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry. (Psalms 88:2) | Bible |
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. (Psalms 35:13) | Bible |
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. (Psalms 102:17) | Bible |
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. (Nehemia 4:9) | Bible |
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. (Colossians 4:12) | Bible |
Hear my prayer, o Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. (Psalms 39:12) | Bible |
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. (Psalms 55:1) | Bible |
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. (Proverbs 15:8) | Bible |
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Psalms 84:8) | Bible |
And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised. (Psalms 72:15) | Bible |
So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Matthew 21:22) | Bible |
The greatest prayer is patience | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another | Epicurus |
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it | François Rabelais (1490-1553) |
Most people do not pray; they only beg. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. | Guy H. King |
Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer | Jamaican Proverb |
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
You cannot petition the Lord with prayer. | Jim Morrison (1943-1971) |
Unanswered prayers of lowly birth/On wings of folly round the earth/Illusion clouds the eyes that raise/To the emerald gods they praise. | Kate Miller |
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough. | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I've suffered, and God didn't listen to my prayers. because many times in my life I have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night | Proverb |
The prayers of the wicked won't prevail. | Proverb |
Keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and bow down with those who bow down. (The Cow 2.43) | quran |
Keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and of the hereafter, they are sure. (The Ant 27.3) | quran |
And keep up prayer in the two parts of the day and in the first hours of the night; surely good deeds take away evil deeds this is a reminder to the mindful. (The Holy Prophet 11.114) | quran |
And enjoin prayer on your followers, and steadily adhere to it; We do not ask you for subsistence; We do give you subsistence, and the (good) end is for guarding (against evil). (Ta Ha 20.132) | quran |
To Him is due the true prayer; and those whom they pray to besides Allah give them no answer, but (they are) like one who stretches forth his two hands towards water that it may reach his mouth, but it will not reach it; and the prayer of the unbelie | quran |
Say to My servants who believe that they should keep up prayer and spend out of what We have given them secretly and openly before the coming of the day in which there shall be no bartering nor mutual befriending. (Abraham 14.31) | quran |
They said: O Shu'aib! does your prayer enjoin you that we should forsake what our fathers worshipped or that we should not do what we please with regard to our property? Forsooth you are the forbearing, the right-directing one. | quran |
O our Lord! surely I have settled a part of my offspring in a valley unproductive of fruit near Thy Sacred House, our Lord! that they may keep up prayer; therefore make the hearts of some people yearn towards them and provide them with fruits; haply | quran |
Glorify Him in the night and after the prayers. (Qaf 50.40) | quran |
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four | Russian Proverb |
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful | William Feather (1889-1981) |
Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
Bønn er mitt viktigste arbeide, og det er med bønnens hjelp jeg utretter alt det øvrige. | Hooker |
Dersom Gud ikke gir deg det du ber om - gir han deg noe enda bedre | Ole Hallesby |
Det vil mer og mer gå opp for deg at bønnen er det viktigste du utfører. | Ole Hallesby |
Djevelen ler når vi arbeider oss trette, men han skjelver når vi ber. | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) |
Gud oppfyller ikke alle våre ønsker, men alle sine løfter oppfyller han. | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) |
Hold ikke din konsert føret og stem dine strenger etterpå! Begynn dagen med Guds ord og bønn, så du først av alt kommer i harmoni med ditt livs Gud. | Hudson Tayler |
Mennesket er aldri større enn når det kneler. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
Når nøden blir til bitterhet, blir den kreft i sinnet, men når nøden blir til bønn, blir den til en kraft i sjelen. | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
There is a huge difference in kneeling down and bending over.. | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |