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1  But we will pray to God together.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  He would kneel and pray with others and be happy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  He prayed it too against the dark outside under the trees.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  They breathed behind him on his neck and sighed as they prayed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  I pray to God, and do you pray with me, that we may repent of our sins.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  Stephen, his tongue cleaving to his palate, bowed his head, praying with his heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  And he remembered an evening when he had dismounted from a borrowed creaking bicycle to pray to God in a wood near Malahide.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  A few of the faithful still lingered praying before one of the side-altars or kneeling in the benches near the confessionals.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  DIEU was the French for God and that was God's name too; and when anyone prayed to God and said DIEU then God knew at once that it was a French person that was praying.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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10  DIEU was the French for God and that was God's name too; and when anyone prayed to God and said DIEU then God knew at once that it was a French person that was praying.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  He knelt to say his penance, praying in a corner of the dark nave; and his prayers ascended to heaven from his purified heart like perfume streaming upwards from a heart of white rose.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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12  He waited in fear, his soul pining within him, praying silently that death might not touch his brow as he passed over the threshold, that the fiends that inhabit darkness might not be given power over him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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13  He clasped his hands and raised them towards the white form, praying with his darkened eyes, praying with all his trembling body, swaying his head to and fro like a lost creature, praying with whimpering lips.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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14  I pray to God through the merits of His zealous servant Francis Xavier, that such a soul may be led to sincere repentance and that the holy communion on saint Francis's day of this year may be a lasting covenant between God and that soul.
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15  But, though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages, still God remained always the same God and God's real name was God.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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16  And if, as may so happen, there be at this moment in these benches any poor soul who has had the unutterable misfortune to lose God's holy grace and to fall into grievous sin, I fervently trust and pray that this retreat may be the turning point in the life of that soul.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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17  That was the work of devils, to scatter his thoughts and over-cloud his conscience, assailing him at the gates of the cowardly and sin-corrupted flesh: and, praying God timidly to forgive him his weakness, he crawled up on to the bed and, wrapping the blankets closely about him, covered his face again with his hands.
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