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Prayer is a wish turned upward.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wish, americans

Prayer is the pillow of religion.

Proverbs and old sayings about religion

Prayer knocks till the door opens.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Praying kneads no dough.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck

Prayers go up and blessings come down.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

If you are going to fight, pray once; if you are going to sail, pray twice; if you are getting married, then pray thrice.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about pray, fight

If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray twice; but pray three times when you are going to be married.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about pray, war

The friar who prays in god's name prays for two.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about name, god

An angry man is not fit to pray.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about pray, man

We taught them to pray, they got to the Mosque before us

Proverbs and old sayings Algerian about pray

There's no use to pray after the devil has you.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about pray, use, devil, americans

Cultivate friends who pray for you, not prey upon you.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about pray, americans

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about pray, americans, man

He who cannot pray at home will celebrate mass somewhere else.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about pray, home

People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about pray, olderness, age, fear, life, people, old

One never comes to pray in the Temple of Three Treasures if he is not in trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about treasure, pray

Do good to a knave, and pray God he may not do the same to thee.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about pray, god, good, good luck

He who does not go to sea knows not how to pray.

Proverbs and old sayings about pray