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I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.
Susan Smith /
Each Day
Give Me
Painful
Take Care
Life God Faith
Extremely
Prayed
Survive
To Survive
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For years, I prayed to the gods of Cao Dai for healing and peace. But as one prayer after another went unanswered, it became clear that either they were nonexistent or they did not care to lend a hand.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc /
Healing
Unanswered
Lend
Nonexistent
Prayed
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My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.
Duane Chapman / Bounty Hunter
Kids
Died
Father
Opposites
Reason
Today
Today I Am Me
Opposite
Acted
Why
Before
Today Me I Am
Father I Am Me
Him
Today Father I Am
Prayed
Raise
Vowed
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As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.
Kiki Smith / Artist
Artist
Calling
Children
Destination
Fun
Expectation
Prayed
Revealed
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The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.
David A. Bednar /
Jesus
Apostles
Crucifixion
Example
Prayer
Real
Savior
Intent
Perfect Example
Prayed
Saints
Uttered
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I took a few months off after my senior year was over, and I prayed and tried to figure out what was my plan and my purpose. That's how I started writing songs and playing guitar just to get my feelings out.
Morgan Wallen /
Senior
Senior Year
Prayed
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Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'
Maya Angelou / Author
Thank You
Book
Brother
Dear
Letters
Puppy
Wonderful
Anywhere
Laugh
Prayed
Recently
Thank
Whenever
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We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg /
Dinner
Employed
Ministry
Younger Brother
Twice
Fought
Prayed
Simpsons
The Simpsons
Twice A Week
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I knew I didn't want to be a doctor but didn't know what I wanted to do. I prayed, and all I heard back was: 'Do comedy.' It was something I had never done before, but I gave in, tried comedy, and the rest is history.
Yvonne Orji /
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The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Broken
Cursed
Guilt
Heal
Horrible
Illness
Mental Illness
Six
Bone
Weeks
Mental
Prayed
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I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.
Ellen G. White / Author
Forgiveness
Jesus
Christian
Forgiven
Peace Of Mind
Loved
Desired
Earnestly
Feeling
Prayed
Resulting
Sins
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I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.
Elisabeth Moss / Tv Actor
Men
Mad Men
Successful
Thinking
Anticipated
Count
Hoped
Pilot
Prayed
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
Olivia Newton-John / Singer
Yoga
Acupuncture
Bases
Buddhist
Cancer
Chemotherapy
Covered
Meditation
Stronger
Conjunction
Prayed
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I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.
Becki Newton / Actress
Ugly
Predict
Betty
Fired
Pilot
Prayed
Signed
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When we say, 'We're here for you,' we mean it to this point - everything we do, everything we preach, every broadcast we come on, everywhere we minister, everything we say and do is prayed, engineered, designed to minister to the people.
Kenneth Copeland / Author
Broadcast
Designed
Engineered
Minister
Prayed
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God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.
Joyce Meyer / Author
Done
Long
Offensive
Want
Love God Work
Love Me
More Or Less
Prayed
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I, like, prayed inside of my head as a little kid. I didn't grow up in a religious home, but we went to Midnight Mass. That was the only time I'd go to church, but when I did, I prayed that I wanted to be a successful musician. I got my wish.
John 5 /
Church
Little Kid
Mass
Midnight
Musician
Only Time
Religious
Successful
Wish
Inside
Grow Up
Head
Prayed
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Mum prayed to the Lord that when her children were born they wouldn't be tone deaf. Mum says at two years old I was singing my own little songs, she didn't know where I'd heard it so I must have made it up. I used to sing along with the radio.
Judith Durham /
Deaf
Heard
Lord
Mum
Radio
Singing
Tone
Prayed
Sing
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My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating's work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.
Tim Ryan / U.s. Representative
Different Kinds
Meditation
Rosary
Teach
Life Work Mom
Based
Friend
Older
Led
Mine
Prayed
Priest
Thomas
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I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.
Regina Brett / Columnist
Catholic
Clean
Confession
Hail
Penance
Saturday
Easiest
Fathers
Gave
Led
Line
Prayed
Priest
Private
Shortest
Souls
Stood
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
Yuvraj Singh / Cricketer
Batting
Bat
Mothers
Pillar
Prayed
Sacrificed
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I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.
Phyllis Smith / Actress
Latter
Lottery
Miles
Worried
Me Better Win
Assist
Better Way
Financially
Me Parents Better
Prayed
Struggling
Thousands
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I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.
Wolfman Jack / Disc Jockey
Fame
Healthy
People
Right Direction
Take Care
Trying
Steer
Life Money Myself
Direction
Prayed
Trip
Ya
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry / Novelist
Awake
Fall
Lying
Night
Prayer
Pure
Walking
Afraid
Beating
Cover
Fearing
Feeling
Forest
Head
His Way
Prayed
Step
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Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
Pope Benedict Xvi /
Faith
Truth
Christ
East
Liturgy
Reason
Rising
Sun
Truth Is
Why
Christians
Direction
Early
Event
Expansive
Facing
Introduced
Prayed
Returning
Symbol
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I really didn't know If I wanted to pursue the Olympics for wrestling. I didn't know what to do with my life. So, I prayed about it. My manager called me a few weeks later and asked if I wanted to fight. I agreed to give it a shot, and I went out and got knocked out.
Johny Hendricks / Mixed Martial Artist
Olympics
Pursue
Life Fight Me
Agreed
Manager
Prayed
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The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
W. Bruce Cameron / Columnist
Plot
Streaming
Formed
Prayed
Wholly
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I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.
David Shuster / Journalist
Car
Coverage
Delay
Graphic
Share
Accidentally
Anchored
Broadcast
Frequently
Incident
Msnbc
Prayed
Promised
Switch
Wondered
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The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.
Gelsey Kirkland / Ballerina
Lengthy
Pain
Sick
Years
Ballets
Suffered
Prayed
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I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.
Adoniram Judson / Missionary
Forgive Me
Little Faith
Sincerely
God Faith Time
Deeply
Distant
Earnestly
Forgive
Object
Prayed
Shape
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
Saint Teresa Of Avila /
Happy
Calling
Faults
Felt
Following
Wanted
Life Time God
Living
Aware
Became
Bound
Burdensome
Life God Time
Clearly
Every Time
Extremely
Hand
Prayed
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Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.
Chuck Palahniuk / Novelist
Famous
Acne
Burned
Gossip
Growing
Growing Up
Heavy
Military
My Own
Face
Distant
Getting
Films
Jack
Led
Prayed
Scarred
Uncle
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Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Tree
Alike
Constitutional
Descended
Forth
Inalienable
Oldest
Prayed
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My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around.
Oliver Tambo / South African Politician
Healed
Healing
Ailment
People Back Place
Suffered
Evangelist
Prayed
Recovered
Sent
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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
Allan Gurganus / Novelist
Scared
World Trade
Anyway
Apostle
Believers
Book Tour
Stopped
Collapsed
Hid
Paul
Practical
Prayed
Published
Reviewing
Tour
Unto
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Throughout her life my mother, Rose, prayed for good health. My father left when I was 12 and money was tight, so she couldn't afford to take time off work. I have a younger sister and three older brothers, and she used to panic that we'd be taken into care if she wasn't able to look after us.
David Lammy / British Politician
Sister
Health
Able
Care
Good Health
Left
Mother
Panic
Taken
Three
Used
Younger Sister
Life Time Work
Life Work Health
Afford
After
Younger
Brothers
Older
Off
Her
Older Brothers
Prayed
She
Throughout
Tight
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I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.
Michael Shannon / Actor
Bible
Flamboyant
Background
Believers
Herself
Prayed
Religious People
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Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
Gad Elmaleh /
Miracle
Morocco
Remembered
Streets
Life Famous Me
Casablanca
Earlier
Prayed
Third
Walked
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In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.
Stanley Hauerwas / Theologian
Britain
Orthodoxy
God Family Believe
Assume
Doubts
Prayed
Vaguely
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I'd been focused on trying to start civil disobedience since 2010. I'd tried many things and they hadn't worked. So I went on a retreat and prayed, with some psychedelic medicines. It was really intense and I prayed for what I called the codes for social change and within a month my prayer was answered.
Gail Bradbrook /
Civil Disobedience
Disobedience
Psychedelic
Retreat
Social Change
Answered
Codes
Medicines
Prayed
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My family prayed a lot, but we didn't really go to church. On Sunday, my mum and dad used to always tell me to read the Bible. That was important for me growing up, and I still do that every morning. It's something that is part of my routine, and I do it every day, whether it's a normal game or a big one.
Daniel Sturridge /
Routine
Sunday
Big One
Prayed
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Just sitting on the bed watching TV. And they said someone with a left inner ear infection, ear pops up, whoa! And uh, yeah, that's me. And you know, they just prayed that it be healed and it sure was. It went away and that was that. And I knew I was healed. What are the chances, eh? That was the Lord working!
Mike Fisher / Ice Hockey Player
Healed
Infection
Pops
Watching Tv
Me Know Someone
Chances
Ear
Eh
Inner
Prayed
Whoa
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My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.
Stanley Hauerwas / Theologian
Appropriate
Promise
God Mother Me
Hannah
Observe
Perfectly
Prayed
Samuel
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I prayed often for deliverance from the pain caused by my decision to abort my baby. I suffered the threat of cervical and breast cancer and experienced the pain of empty arms after the baby was gone. And truly, for me, and countless abortive mothers, nothing on earth can fully restore what has been lost; only Jesus can.
Alveda King / Pro-Life Activist
Arms
Breast Cancer
Deliverance
Empty
Caused
Countless
Suffered
Experienced
Mothers
Prayed
Restore
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I come from an African-American family that is predominantly Muslim. I have had to covertly operate in parts of the Middle East and Africa. I've lived a Muslim life and prayed in Mosques, Husseiniyahs, and shrines where needed. One must respect Islam to understand Islam. I've read the Quran through and through a half dozen times.
Malcolm Nance /
African American
Dozen
Islam
Middle East
Life Family Respect
Mosque
Operate
Prayed
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I don't know how I got a great husband. I mean, God just blessed me with that one. Because - trust me - before him, I was not making good choices. So I was just absolutely blessed. I just prayed for that man He's my secret weapon because he's so gregarious, and he's so filled with joy. Me? I can sometimes be more cynical, and I'm very shy.
Viola Davis / Actress
Cynical
Filled
Gregarious
Shy
Trust Me
Trust God Good
Secret Weapon
Weapon
Prayed
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