Top 100 Prays Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You should never trust a person who prays in public.
Stephen King
#3. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
Aldous Huxley
#4. In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.
Rick Warren
#5. The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
D. A. Carson
#6. Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul's life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul prays it will be the meaning of his death as well. We live and we die to make much of Christ.
John Piper
#7. So I have never believed that there was any genuine good in the things which everyone prays for; what is more, I have found them empty and daubed with showy and deceptive colours, with nothing inside to match their appearance.
Seneca.
#8. I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best ...
Ali Larter
#9. For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.
Hafez
#10. The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen
#11. she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now
Beth Morey
#12. America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ceremonial praying is hard on Billy.
Ben Fountain
#14. He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds
thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
Theodore Parker
#15. Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
Teresa Of Avila
#17. There is a god in writing.
a soft. roaring. unconditional.
home of a god.
who prays to me.
Nayyirah Waheed
#18. Nobody prays for the heartless, nobody gives another penny for the selfish
Pierce The Veil
#19. The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.
Karl Barth
#20. Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
Ivan Turgenev
#21. Oh, now look. She prays to the Mother of Jesus as if she believes she can intercede for her. Ma infantile, you surely do not understand the depth of those repetitious lines, do you
Sai Marie Johnson
#22. The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.
Joey Comeau
#23. One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.
Origen
#24. I know my redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand on the earth(Job 19:25). Thank you Jesus, You alone are worthy our prays.
Euginia Herlihy
#25. Whoever prays twelve rakats during the night and day, a house will be built for him in paradise. Four before dhuhr, and two after, two rakats after maghrib, two rakats after ishaa, and two rakats before fajr prayer.
Muhammad
#26. It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God's wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God's wisdom in life's important choices.
Ravi Zacharias
#27. The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.
John Wesley
#29. A worship team that prays together stays together.
Gangai Victor
#30. The soul's a sort of sentimental wife,
That prays and whimpers of the higher life.
Richard Le Gallienne
#31. And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.
John Boyne
#33. The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Prayer changes things, but it ultimately changes the one who prays.
Suzanne Eller
#36. Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#37. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
#38. It's like someone who prays every night saying God's a good listener. Just because you're talking to us doesn't mean we're listening. With me and God, you never really know.
Paul Neilan
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. But I know this, that we can do better without the voice that preaches than without the heart that prays.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#42. It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#43. The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#44. The gods are real crazy when it comes to prayers. They listen to some sometimes and do not listen to some sometimes. But the whole world prays, nonetheless-All the time
Aporva Kala
#45. The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true.
Niecy Nash
#46. One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#48. The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.
Pope Benedict XVI
#49. 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
#50. The forgotten man ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
William Graham Sumner
#51. But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
#52. One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#53. When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
Origen
#54. The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.
Umar
#55. The church does not prey on the lost; it prays for the perishing.
Billy Graham
#56. Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself ...
Ivan Turgenev
#57. I watched her cry
drown herself in a flood of tears. It is a great thing to be in the presence of a rational being who cries. A weak, broken creature shedding tears makes the same impression as an all-powerful god to whom one prays. In her weakness and defeat Amy was above human power.
Henri Barbusse
#58. He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.
Michael Crichton
#59. The impostor syndrome. I know it well. Inside every self-assured professional lives a frightened neurotic who prays that he can somehow succeed before his clients discover the fraud. It's the guilty secret that drives us all.
Richard North Patterson
#60. Alas, a great many people play at praying; it is nothing better. I say they play at praying; they do not expect God to give them an answer, and thus they are mere triflers who mock the Lord. He who prays in a businesslike way, meaning what he says, honors the Lord.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. Her heart is no longer hers, it belongs to him, in all its brokenness and vulnerability. She prays that he protects it and doesn't finish the job, completely destroying it.
Karen-Anne Stewart
#62. When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.
Joseph Parker
#63. Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens
Max Lucado
#64. For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
Haniel Long
#65. So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.
Alphonsus Liguori
#66. I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.
Ellen J. Barrier
#67. Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.
Spencer W. Kimball
#68. If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.
Sarada Devi
#69. A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
Leonard Ravenhill
#70. Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?
George Carlin
#71. If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.
Ja'far Al-Sadiq
#72. A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.
Ameen Rihani
#73. The day your kind stops killing each other over skin colour or which God someone prays to, I might believe that.
Jeaniene Frost
#74. The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#75. I am nothing like my father. While he prays for war, I pray for peace.
And now we go our separate ways, each believing that we are right.
My father has made his choice, and I have made mine.
I am, at last, my own man.
I can live with that.
Omar Bin Laden
#76. There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.
Barnabe Rich
#77. Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#78. Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,
And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
Dylan Thomas
#79. The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
F.B. Meyer
#80. What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. Saint Cath, please guide my eyes, she prays, and keep my hands from stealing. She has to pray her prayer, or things from good people end up in her pack, and she hates that about herself.
Dylan Landis
#82. He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
Pope Francis
#83. Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind ...
Lana Del Rey
#84. There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture.
Daniel Henderson
#85. Know that whatever God prays to
He asked it to help Him make something of worth.
He woke from His dreams scraped the soil form the spaces inside Himself made you and was happy.
You make the Lord happy.
Anis Mojgani
#86. The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur
#87. The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do.
James MacDonald
#88. Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#89. Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
Ivan Turgenev
#90. When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.
E. Stanley Jones
#91. Man of faith is a stable man looking in only one direction for the wisdom he needs. He knows that the God to whom he prays is able and willing to respond to his need. As
David Jeremiah
#92. Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
Duke Ellington
#93. Lots will get on the mic and tell huge audiences to pray for world peace. And there's a scientific study that shows when everyone prays for peace, whole war zones on the planet actually cease fighting for that day!
DJ QBert
#94. The family that works together, eats together, and prays together, stays together.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#95. Hyun Joong brother always prays SS501 WILL BE FOREVER ONE so we always try our best to make our performances cool.
Kim Kyu-jong
#96. When we are alone with God, the Spirit prays in us. The challenge is to develop a simple discipline or spiritual practice to embrace some empty time and empty space every day.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#97. She prays to God, but He's silent. She searches for guidance, but the forest only moans.
Carrie Ryan
#98. The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
#100. When he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he can understand Him, he feels Nothing - not nothing, but Nothing, an edgeless blankness that somehow feels worse than the sort of unconsidered atheism he Came In with.
David Foster Wallace
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