Top 100 Praying Time Quotes
#1. Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.
Billy Graham
#2. God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. It's easier to be close to God during prayer time when you're close to God all the time.
Jared Brock
#4. I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
Billy Graham
#5. We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
Jodi Picoult
#6. Why isn't everyone praying all the time? Who cares why everyone isn't praying all the time - you pray all the time.
Art Hochberg
#7. Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes nothing in particular".
Peter Kreeft
#8. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.
Bill Fitch
#9. I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#10. Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.
Mary Webb
#11. They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.
Lalita Tademy
#12. 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
#13. If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying; we would have had a three times more educated people than the whole world's population.
M.F. Moonzajer
#14. I have been praying, too, for the first time in my life. That parson, Tugwell, he helped me see - not the error of my ways, for I knew them all to well already - but what was wanting in me. I am far from perfect, I know, but I am changed and changing still
Julie Klassen
#15. One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.
Teresa Of Avila
#16. If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#17. I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.
Morrissey
#18. Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
Anita Hill
#19. Every time we linger in bad company whose insidious influence we know we cannot resist, every time we lie in bed when we ought to be up and praying, every time we read pornographic literature, every time we take a risk which strains our self-control, we are sowing, sowing, sowing to the flesh.
John R.W. Stott
#20. Prayer isn't about repeating rituals; it's about spending time with Dad.
Jared Brock
#21. Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt , speaking]
Mark Batterson
#22. 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
#23. At sacred-time, I will give birth to divine-twins in Jesus Name. Amen.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. 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
#25. Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.
Eric Liddell
#26. Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.
Pope John Paul II
#27. No one can pray and worry at the same time.
Max Lucado
#28. Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.
D. A. Carson
#29. What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
Ernest Gaines
#30. Praying always means praying through things and not giving up. It means being ever-watchful and persevering in prayer in order to see breakthrough.
God wants us to be persistent in our praying. Don't forget to spend some quiet time praying to your Heavenly Father today.
Stormie O'martian
#31. I've got to quit trying to play the Holy Spirit's role by forcing, manipulating, talking, and programming people into the change I want to see. Instead I've got to spend more time praying that the Holy Spirit would come into their lives and regenerate them.
Francis Chan
#32. Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.
William Gurnall
#33. If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.
Dwight L. Moody
#34. Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?
Mark Cahill
#35. We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.
M. Scott Peck
#36. God gave us family so that when we have a hard time praying for ourselves, we have others who will pray for us.
James Potter
#37. Next time, I'll be laying you flat on your back and showing you all the different ways a tongue can be used that doesn't involve praying your Hail-Fucking-Mary's.
Amo Jones
#38. I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.
Martin Luther
#39. If the will of God was for us to be sick, then no one disregarded the will of God more than Jesus. Every time He healed someone, He may have cheated them of a lesson they needed to develop their character.
Praying Medic
#40. There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#41. In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.
Samuel Chadwick
#42. [God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies?
Billy Graham
#43. Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#44. Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.
Desmond Tutu
#45. Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.
Rene Leriche
#46. The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
Josh Billings
#47. I was shocked that someone I didn't even know would take the time to pray for me.
Divine
#48. It is important for Christians to spend time praying with or in the spirit-that is, praying in tongues. The Bible says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God"
Chris Oyakhilome
#49. The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land ... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.
Chief Joseph
#50. The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.
Kristin Armstrong
#52. Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.
E. M. Bounds
#53. I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.
Jermain Defoe
#54. Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
Charles Spurgeon
#56. It is time that conservative people of faith jointly commit to praying for our nation (daily, fervently!) and also rise up hand in hand in an effort to raise up a new generation of Franklins and Washingtons and Lincolns and Reagans.
Jonathan Falwell
#57. Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.
Meat Loaf
#58. Hullo, Brother," I said. He recognized me, glanced at the suitcase and said: "This time have you come to stay?" "Yes, Brother, if you'll pray for me," I said. Brother nodded, and raised his hand to close the window. "That's what I've been doing," he said, "praying for you.
Thomas Merton
#59. 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
#60. If you want revival, get right with God. If you are not prepared to bring the "last piece," for God's sake stop talking about revival, your talking and praying is but the laughing-stock of devils. It is about time we got into the grips of reality. Are we thirsty?
Duncan Campbell
#61. Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!
T. B. Joshua
#62. I'm a hopeless pray-er. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
Frederick Buechner
#63. I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
Queen Latifah
#64. You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.
Peter Kreeft
#65. During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.
Rick Warren
#66. I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.
Smith Wigglesworth
#67. It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.
Steve Goodier
#69. Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
Jay-Z
#70. You pray and pray and pray and nothing changes, like for example I prayed for a real house and good clothes and a bicycle and things for a long, long, time, and none of it happened, not even one little thing, which is how I know that all this praying for Father is just people playing.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#71. We are so busy working on God, we forget He is trying to work on us. That is what this life is all about: God at work on us, trying to remake us into vessels of glory. We are so busy praying to change things that we have little time to allow prayer to change us.
David Wilkerson
#72. Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#73. Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.
Donald Ray Pollock
#74. All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
Kobayashi Issa
#75. If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.
Joel Osteen
#76. At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.
Ai Yazawa
#77. We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#78. 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
#80. I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.
Paul Feig
#81. We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#82. If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.
Matthew Kelly
#83. I swore I would love you 'til the end of time, so now I'm praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive.
Meat Loaf
#85. You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,
you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.
Billy Graham
#86. The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.
Terry Tempest Williams
#87. Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
Paul Washer
#88. We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.
Ole Hallesby
#89. Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass, and it translate to beef with broccoli. The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.
Bill Maher
#90. It is this personal knowledge that is the basis of discipleship, and it involves more than reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, and praying. It is intimately walking in communion with the Father through living, loving, and spending time with God.
Robby Gallaty
#91. Lord our time on earth is in your hands.
Lord determine and guide our steps.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
Whitley Strieber
#93. I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.
John Assaraf
#94. I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.
Mitt Romney
#95. I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#96. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.
Peter Kreeft
#98. The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. 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
#100. 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
