Top 100 Praying For Quotes
#1. I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.
Jack Miller
#2. The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
Ben Jonson
#3. When you get down on your knees praying for help, God's gonna look at you and keep doing what He was doing
Thulani Davis
#4. I've learned ... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
Andy Rooney
#5. They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. Similarly, while prayer is frequently a person's first response to a disaster, it's often the least helpful. Instead of praying for disaster victims, it would be more helpful to donate blood, send donations or volunteer. These are actions that can actually have a positive effect on someone.
Armin Navabi
#7. I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.
Christopher Bollen
#8. Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.
Neville Goddard
#9. Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors".
Robert Uttaro
#10. Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.
Trent Shelton
#11. You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.
Carl Fredrik Wisloff
#12. If you fall down to the ground, you're in the perfect position to pray. It definitely humbles you and if you're humble it's easier for God to get Closer to You.
Jeanette Coron
#14. Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.
Pope Francis
#15. Vincent started praying, Dear Father, thank you for bitches slapping bitches.
Sarah Brianne
#16. Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!
Mark Batterson
#17. Those shiny eyes like the stars in the sky; but black and brown,
And those beautiful lips like the flowers but sugary
And those kind smells, lovable but with no purpose
All meant to be for me?
Someone must have been praying and wishing me the whole world
M.F. Moonzajer
#18. I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.
Don Cheadle
#19. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
Kevin DeYoung
#20. Josephine wasn't much for praying . It had never done her any good.
Denise Hunter
#21. Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
Safak Pavey
#22. Words cannot ease the pain you are feeling right now But just wanted to let you know that we are thinking about you And praying for your pain to ease And for you to find sunshine when the dark clouds have passed.
Margaret Jones
#23. Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
Mother Teresa
#24. OCD focuses on the negative. I didn't think to myself, My praying will save my grandma. Instead, I thought, If I don't pray, my grandma will die for sure.
J.J. Keeler
#25. I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.
Tituss Burgess
#26. Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.
Lancelot Andrewes
#27. I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.
Geraldine Brooks
#28. I have my faith, and that is a strong anchor. I will not stop praying. I believe all things happen for a reason. We may not see it right now, but Londy will be vindicated, and God will work all this out for the best.
Janice Cantore
#29. When you pray for others you're praying for yourself.
Okisha Jackson
#30. When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.
Sheila Cassidy
#31. Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.
("The Undying Thing")
Barry Pain
#32. When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
Jai Rodriguez
#33. Our trees
were nuns at the edge of our plans, praying for us
Sue Goyette
#34. What you pray for reflects what you believe about God.
Craig Groeschel
#35. Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
T. S. Eliot
#36. The good news is that Jesus is praying for us. The bad news is that we are going to need it!
John Wimber
#37. It's about walking, or crawling as the case may be, through this messy existence with eyes open. It's about squeezing a fistful of shit and praying for a diamond.
Laird Barron
#38. I'm extremely blessed with my teammates. They're such an encouragement in my life. I have people praying for me and I'm praying for them as well.
Tobin Heath
#39. Sometimes you can just feel when someone has been praying for you. Whomever it is Thank you!!
Amanda Penland
#40. we are a god one people but we do praying at different and different gods for self.
Abhimanyu Kumar
#41. Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Damian Lewis
#42. It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
Ole Hallesby
#43. The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.
Pope Leo XIII
#44. Two great prayers;
Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities.
Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. I pray for him. It's very difficult to dislike someone for whom you are praying.
Jack Canfield
#46. Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better.
Erica Lindquist
#47. Your career you will only hear the drum of setback but it is time to shine! Whatever situation you have been facing - this is the time you have been praying for to shine, to move, to overcome, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!
T. B. Joshua
#48. Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
Gautama Buddha
#49. Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.
Ralph Martin
#50. We don't have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He's for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.
J. Edwin Orr
#51. Trust me."
This being had saved her life, had even taken bullets for her, and yet there was something so markedly
untrustworthy about him ... .
He flashed her a rakish grin with barely noticeable fangs. "Though if you're the praying type, now might be a choice
time.
Kresley Cole
#52. Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.
Andy Stanley
#53. When praying for the Lord's will about something questionable, don't give up if you don't receive clear leading after one prayer; just keep on praying until God makes it clear.
Curtis Hutson
#54. Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.
Elizabeth George
#55. We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.
Paul E. Miller
#56. There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
Victor Hugo
#57. Have you ever thought your friend or loved one had issues and you kept praying for God to change them? Have you ever thought it could be you just need to change your attitude?
Amanda Penland
#58. Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
Teresa Of Avila
#59. A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#60. To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.
Neville Goddard
#61. I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.
Morrissey
#62. I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
C.S. Lewis
#63. The truth is you always grow to love the people you pray for. That's because you develop God's heart of love for them.
Stormie O'martian
#64. Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
Plato
#65. Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.
Gary Busey
#66. It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.
Jonathan Goforth
#67. When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
Dornford Yates
#68. God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you're praying for a million dollars and God said, "I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested," it's done, in Jesus' name.
Pat Robertson
#69. Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert
#70. You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.
Will Rogers
#71. It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.
Esther Smith
#72. There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.
Samuel Chadwick
#73. After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#74. Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best
Lil' Wayne
#75. We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
William Carey
#76. In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#77. Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.
Sri Chinmoy
#78. Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
Menander
#79. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...
Abraham Lincoln
#80. Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
Oswald Chambers
#81. Prayer is like coffee for my soul in the morning
Munia Khan
#83. [God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies?
Billy Graham
#84. You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
Benjamin Carson
#85. 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
#86. In the evenings, before I went to sleep, and in the mornings, in the moment I woke up, I realized I was praying for rain.
Makoto Shinkai
#87. ...but just to be sitting there meditating and praying for the world with another earnest young man- 'twere good enough to have been born just to die, as we all are. Something will come of it in the Milky Ways of eternity stretching in from of all our phantom unjuandiced eyes, friends.
Jack Kerouac
#88. If you want to change the climate of your marriage immediately, start praying for your spouse
Justin Davis
#89. After the engine had faded away she did not dismount, but sat for a few minutes with her face in her hands, almost as if she was praying. If it was a prayer she was muttering, however, it was one full of all the swear words that Not-Triss had ever heard, and quite a few she had not.
Frances Hardinge
#90. When your heart connects through prayer to the One who is the source of true love, you'll find that praying for your future husband will wondrously result in your heart being changed. And when your heart is changed, your life is transformed.
Robin Jones Gunn
#91. The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.
Samuel Chadwick
#93. I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.
K.P. Yohannan
#95. It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.
James Freeman Clarke
#96. It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious for my rowdy friends - they thought I was unbelievably hung up - and too rowdy for my religious friends - they were always praying for me.
James Bryan Smith
#97. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
#98. Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane ... I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine
J.R. Ward
#99. Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.
Bill Johnson
#100. If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
Alphonsus Liguori
