Top 100 Pray'r Quotes
#1. Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
Joseph Addison
#2. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
Alexander Pope
#3. When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
R.A. Torrey
#4. Gentle Mother, font of mercy,
save our sons from war, we pray,
stay the swords and stay the arrows,
let them know a better day,
Gentle Mother, strength of women,
help our daughters through this fray,
soothe the wrath and tame the fury,
teach us all a kinder way.
George R R Martin
#5. Remind me to tell the High Septon," said Tyrion. "If I could pray with my cock, I'd be much more religious." He
George R R Martin
#6. Pray tell, she said, although her voice told him not to.
He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...
Laurie R. King
#7. The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. In the sept they sing for the Mother's mercy but on the walls it's the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence.
George R R Martin
#8. Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.
George R R Martin
#9. Hell, any plan that added "and then we pray" is not a trip to Disneyland.
J.R. Ward
#11. The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.
George R R Martin
#12. Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
R.A. Torrey
#13. If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on
R.A. Torrey
#14. We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
R.A. Torrey
#15. I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. "Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words.
George R R Martin
#16. You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.
Tad R. Callister
#17. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.
George R R Martin
#18. If I pray nicely, will the Father give me a new hand?
No. But the Warrior will give you courage, the Smith will lend you strength, and the Crone will give you wisdom.
It's a hand I need.
George R R Martin
#19. Play More, Pray More; Get More, Give More ... Live More!-RVM
R.v.m.
#21. I have no one to talk with, Father," she told him. "I pray, but the gods do not answer.
George R R Martin
#22. The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#24. Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
Charles R. Swindoll
#25. To pray is to communicate with the essence. Praying is calling home.
J.R. Rim
#26. Now pray excuse me, I need to hit someone very hard with a sword -Jon Snow
George R R Martin
#27. One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
R.C. Sproul
#28. All that God does is for His glory first and for our benefit second. We pray because God commands us to pray, because it glorifies Him, and because it benefits us.
R.C. Sproul
#29. God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing, and not give up, and not panic, and not retreat, when something doesn't seem to be going just right.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#30. By the twelfth day of his fast, Raju himself has become a tourist attraction. Before an enormous crowd and an American television crew, the starving man is helped down to the drought-stricken river to pray:
R.K. Narayan
#31. I found there are many things women ask for in a love. Other women demand money, power, or adventure. All I pray for is that he is patient, and plead that he will love me.
R. YS Perez
#34. Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
George R R Martin
#35. A headsman's sword is no fit end for brave Ser Gregor. We have prayed so long for his death, it is only fair that he pray for it as well.
George R R Martin
#36. When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.
R.A. Torrey
#37. Melisandre: I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only snow.
George R R Martin
#38. What prayer most often changes is the wickedness and the hardness of our own hearts. That alone would be reason enough to pray, even if none of the other reasons were valid or true.
R.C. Sproul
#39. Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#40. Gospel optimism leads to kingdom prayer. This psalm should move us to pray - and to pray with great hope and expectation - that the kingdom of Christ will prevail against the powers of evil and that all His elect will be brought in and made holy.
Joel R. Beeke
#41. The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since last I wept.
George R R Martin
#42. Holy Spirit, please overrule in my life that I will never quench the fire that You have caused to burn. Let me never pour water on wood You may want to ignite. I pray on bended knee that You will come unquenched into my heart and stay there without any hindrance from me. In Jesus's name, amen.
R.T. Kendall
#43. They had woken him as they had her, pounding on his door in the black of night to yank him rudely from his dreams. Were they good dreams, brother? Do you dream of sunlight and laughter and a maiden's kisses? I pray you do. Her own dreams were dark and laced with terrors.
George R R Martin
#44. Like a phoenix rising through the fire, my Robbie, my Tesoro rises forward, and I hope and pray that he can take him out.
M.R. Field
#45. Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have.
M. R. DeHaan
#46. Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan ever made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above.
George R R Martin
#47. When you pray, pray so that you may know Him. When you seek to simplify, do it as a means of knowing Him more. When you surrender, or behave with humility or sacrifice, do it with the sole purpose in mind to know Him.
Charles R. Swindoll
#48. If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.
R.T. Kendall
#49. I pray he found the peace in death that he never knew in life.
George R R Martin
#50. The rain feels so good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay awhile longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since I last wept.
George R R Martin
#51. Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray?
Charles R. Moore
#52. Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!
Mother Teresa
#53. There is a right way to pray and a wrong way to pray!
Paul Silway
#54. I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
Louise Erdrich
#55. I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.
Anne Rice
#56. The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
Ole Hallesby
#57. Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.
A.B. Simpson
#59. And although God is always close, if you don't pray, you will never manage to feel His presence.
Paulo Coelho
#60. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#61. Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
Maya Angelou
#63. And like some part of himself that, two days ago, had thought pray and propriety were antidote enough to what ailed the world.
Zoe Ferraris
#64. Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
Queen Latifah
#65. Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.
David Levithan
#66. A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
Nehemiah Adams
#67. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Francois Fenelon
#68. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.
Syed Ather
#69. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...
Elizabeth Gilbert
#70. Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.
Sivananda
#71. As they climbed into their saddles, Myron bowed his head and muttered a soft prayer.
"There," Hadrian told Royce, "we've got Maribor on our side. Now you can relax."
"Actually," Myron said sheepishly, "I was praying for the horses. But I will pray for you as well," he added hastily.
Michael J. Sullivan
#72. You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
Denzel Washington
#73. I promise you in [Jesus] name that if you pray with a sincere desire to hear your Heavenly Father's voice in the messages of this conference, you will discover that He has spoken to you to help you, to strengthen you, and to lead you home into His presence.
Robert D. Hales
#74. If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.
Ellen Malcolm
#75. I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. Full disclosure: I've never read 'Eat Pray Love,' nor have I even seen the movie.
Kelvin Yu
#77. Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones
#78. Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.
R.A. Torrey
#79. The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.
John R. Rice
#80. We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.
R. L. Hymers Jr.
#81. 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
#82. Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.
Leo Tolstoy
#83. We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.
Robert E.Lee
#84. One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
Evelyn Waugh
#85. 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
#86. She would stay strong. She would remember the promises in Scripture. She would hope and pray and not give away.
Laura Frantz
#87. 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
#88. Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them,
Mohsin Hamid
#89. [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
#90. One of the most loving things you can ever do for your spouse is to pray for them. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7).
Alex Kendrick
#91. We pray for a messenger from God - who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?
Orson Scott Card
#92. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.
Dwight L. Moody
#93. Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.
Felix Wantang
#94. Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole
#95. The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
Desiderius Erasmus
#96. Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.
Graham Nash
#97. I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much ... so, so much.
Jacqueline Woodson
#98. When you decide to be the immovable object standing in front of the unstoppable force, you'd better pray that you're right about being immovable, and they're wrong about being unstoppable.' 'Otherwise, you'll wind up like a bug on a windshield.
Seanan McGuire
#99. Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
Aesop
#100. We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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