Praying Man Quotes

#1. I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman.
Homer Simpson

Matt Groening

#2. Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

Oswald Chambers

#3. God ... God ... dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God ...

George Bailey

#4. The praying man is eligible to invite God or any spirit-being to come on earth

Sunday Adelaja

#5. As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

Harriet Tubman

#6. A wise man (or the first comedian in history) once said, "If you wish to make God laugh, tell him your plans." This is why during praying, I occasionally slip in my business plans. If there were an internet of somekind in heaven, my story would've been forwarded to everyone even before lunch break.

Isman H. Suryaman

#7. No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice.

Dan Brown

#8. The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

Leonard Ravenhill

#9. A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

Charles Brent

#10. 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

#11. Every man prays in his own language.

Duke Ellington

#12. Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

Tupac Shakur

#13. But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

Aeschylus

#14. All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

John Henry Jowett

#15. When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

E. Stanley Jones

#16. He limps in his life like the lame man in the Proverbs, whose legs were not equal, for his praying is shorter than his preaching.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#17. There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

William Law

#18. I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.

Geraldine Brooks

#21. He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy
every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

Chaim Potok

#22. The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.

Richard Cecil

#23. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

David C. Coates

#24. ...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

#25. I believe in children praying
well, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more self-reliant. I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles.

Joseph Conrad

#26. It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

James Freeman Clarke

#27. The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#28. Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Robert South

#29. The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#30. My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

Rita Mae Brown

#31. I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

Vincent De Paul

#32. If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#33. Father said man was born a praying animal, and no matter how wicked he was, if he had an accident, or saw he had just got to die, he cried aloud to the Lord for help and mercy before he knew what he was doing.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#34. When he looked up at Annabel, he was just a man, looking at a woman, praying and hoping that she loved him the way he loved her.

Julia Quinn

#35. Tell me what a man does in the matter of Bible-reading and praying, in the matter of Sunday, public worship, and the Lord's Supper, and I will soon tell you what he is, and on which road he is travelling.

J.C. Ryle

#36. I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

Hudson Taylor

#37. When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Karl Rahner

#38. It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

Naguib Mahfouz

#39. Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Benjamin Franklin

#40. When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

Arthur Wallis

#41. Most people don't pray until they're in trouble.
When people need help they pray a lot.
But after they get what they want, they slow down.
If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean.
Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

Muhammad Ali

#42. 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

#43. Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

R.A. Torrey

#44. I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Dwight L. Moody

#45. As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

Brendan Fraser

#46. Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest.

Arthur Wallis

#47. The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#48. When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

Saint John Chrysostom

#49. When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

John Climacus

#50. No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#51. Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.

Watchman Nee

#52. Why is it that they have Bibles in every motel room? Why should a man want to read the Bible when he's with a woman alone in a motel room? Why would he be interested? Whatever he's praying for, he's already got!

Jackie Mason

#53. It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

Owen Wister

#54. And on and on it went-that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man who was so full of loving echoes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#55. Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man's prayers matched by his deeds.

John Kramer

#56. That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#57. A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

Jeremiah Denton

#58. The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

Heber J. Grant

#59. I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

Edward VII

#60. Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

Alice Walker

#61. She thought, if we stay here, soon enough it will be you sitting at the table and me, I don't know, cooking something, and the snow flying, and the old man so glad we're here he'll be off in his study praying about it. And geraniums in the window. Red ones.

Marilynne Robinson

#62. Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

Damian Lewis