Top 100 Pray More Quotes
#1. The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
Ole Hallesby
#2. You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Isaac Newton
#3. You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Bertolt Brecht
#4. No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray ... How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#5. If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.
James Van Praagh
#6. I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .
Ali Shariati
#7. I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.
Jack Miller
#8. You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.
Max Lucado
#9. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
Jessica Brody
#10. I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
Mark Batterson
#11. We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.
Pope Theodoros II
#12. I pray you weep no more my love, let no tears fall for my demise, lift your face to the sky above, and let the sun dry your eyes...
Anthony Ryan
#13. Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
Edward Young
#14. I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.
Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life ...
Sanhita Baruah
#15. There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."
Ole Hallesby
#16. If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
John Ruskin
#17. The Quakers pray as the spirit moves them; but to let oneself be moved by the spirit is an arduous business. Kindlier and more worldly churches, with a feeling for human weakness, provide their worshipers with rituals, litanies, beads and prayer wheels.
Aldous Huxley
#18. When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?
Russ Scalzo
#19. No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st
Have some malignant power upon my life:
If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,
As ending anthem of my endless dolour.
William Shakespeare
#20. A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour ... A low view of law always brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
J. Gresham Machen
#21. Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense
or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?
Quentin R. Bufogle
#22. To pray is to say that there is more than I can see, and more than I can do. There is more going on than meets the eye.
Shauna Niequist
#23. To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.
Ole Hallesby
#24. Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#25. Pray without ceasing, say all you can to God and lay all your difficulties before him. He'll take away your tears and make a way where there seems to be none. Wake up and do it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional - the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
Geoffrey Wood
#27. Where is God, even if he doesn't exist? I want to pray and to weep, to repent of crimes I didn't commit, to enjoy the feeling of forgiveness like a caress that's more than maternal.
Fernando Pessoa
#28. What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
Andy Stanley
#29. The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.
Joan D. Chittister
#32. We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is.
John Piper
#33. If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!
Cyprian
#34. Belief in God's sovereignty coupled with his promises to reward those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6) provides even more powerful incentive to pray.
Bryan Chapell
#35. The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
Martin Luther
#36. There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
#37. You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.
Henry B. Eyring
#38. Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.
Leonard Ravenhill
#39. If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.
Henry VIII Of England
#40. Prayer and imagination are directly proportional: the more you pray the bigger your imagination becomes because the Holy Spirit supersizes it with God-sized dreams.
Mark Batterson
#41. Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#42. And add at once: it is not in my pride that I pray for it, Lord, for I myself am more vile than all
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#43. I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore:
Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.
John Milton
#44. You must pray.'
'No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.'
'Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important.
Adriana Trigiani
#45. Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how
Mark Batterson
#46. [R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.
Daniel Henderson
#47. Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.
Thomas A Kempis
#48. She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#49. More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ... '
Neil Peart
#50. Eugene Peterson once wrote that before we can love our enemies, we have to pray our hatred. In these psalms - which are more frequent than the psalms of orientation - Israel vented and boiled over at God, apparently believing he was secure enough to be able to take it.
John Ortberg
#51. A prayer culture is fueled by experience not explanation. A passion to seek the Lord in prayer is more caught than taught.
Daniel Henderson
#52. The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
Shane Claiborne
#53. Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all a flow of love, if the heart is truly speaking to and listening to the Holy Trinity. Personally, I pray the Divine Mercy chaplet every day. We pray the Rosary every day in our family.
Michael O'Brien
#54. Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
Marianne Williamson
#56. In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.
Richard Kadrey
#57. I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
Drew Barrymore
#58. And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.
William Shakespeare
#59. We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.
Alistair Begg
#60. For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.
Teresa Of Avila
#61. Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?
George Eliot
#62. The more fervently we pray, the more the Lord shows mercy upon them that we pray for, removing the reasons for cries and wailings
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
Oswald Chambers
#64. Dutch) language. I pray still more earnestly that He would,
Andrew Murray
#65. [On ascending the platform to his execution] I pray you, I pray you, Mr Lieutenant, see me safe up and for my coming down, I can shift for myself.
Thomas More
#66. Let's continue to pray for each other and ask the Lord to bring us closer to each other. He (God) will bring us not only 79 votes, but more than 79 (votes),
Corazon Aquino
#68. It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.
Paul Bowles
#69. Intention to pray is even more powerful than physical prayer - but it's good to do both.
Art Hochberg
#70. As you keep the commandments and pray in faith to see the Lord's hand in your life, I promise you that He will open your spiritual eyes even wider, and you will see more clearly that you are not alone.
Neil L. Andersen
#71. The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the more we want to pray.
Jim Cymbala
#72. The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.
Gary Panter
#74. You are Shenkt? I expected more."
"Pray to whatever god you believe in that you never see more."
"I do not pray."
Shenkt leaned close, and whispered in his ear. "I advise you to start.
Joe Abercrombie
#75. If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.
Mother Teresa
#76. Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.
Frederick Buechner
#77. I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.
Jupiter Hammon
#78. You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.
Saint John Chrysostom
#79. And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life. / Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more. / Never, never, never. Pray you, undo / This button. Thank you, sir. O, O, O, O!
James Shapiro
#80. Play More, Pray More; Get More, Give More ... Live More!-RVM
R.v.m.
#81. Pray fIor my soul, more things are wrought bX prayer than this world dreams of
-- Tennyson
Neville Goddard
#82. If you bow your knees more often in prayer, you will feel the presence of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. 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
#84. One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?"
"Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.
Cassandra Clare
#85. Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
Aasif Mandvi
#86. God raises from the dead he who man slays, he whom his brothers have rejected, finds his father once more. Pray, believe, enter into life the father is there.
Victor Hugo
#87. We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.
Frank Laubach
#88. The love you left behind is so much greater than the regrets your departure created. You were more than worth the trouble. I pray I was too.
Seth King
#89. If we really knew what God had for us, we would pray more.
Karen Wheaton
#90. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley's love?" "I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At
Jane Austen
#91. Prayer doesn't bend God's arm but it's guaranteed to bend our hearts toward His will. Worry less. Pray more.
LeCrae
#92. We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.
Eugene H. Peterson
#93. According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and three out of four claim to pray every day. To
Philip Yancey
#94. The author says our prayers are misdirected when we ask God that He help us to love Him more. If we pray to him more, we will love Him more.
Jen Pollock Michel
#95. If [Jesus] felt that He had to pray, how much more do we need to pray!
Billy Graham
#96. Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God's capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
William Arthur Ward
#98. Nothing can create more dramatic changes than simple and pure love and compassion. When people pray, their prayers are listened, but the answers manifest in forms that their selfishness blinds them to see.
Robin Sacredfire
#99. If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
John Owen
#100. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
Henry Wotton
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