Top 100 Quotes About Pray
#1. Pray tell, what is wrong with the swimsuit model that I have delivered to your doorstep?
Alessandra Torre
#2. Whatever God has called your husband to be or do, He has also called you to support it and be part of it, if in no other way than to pray, encourage, and help in whatever way possible.
Stormie O'martian
#3. What concrete steps can I take now?" I asked the voice, and it replied: "Go to a house of prayer and pray."
"Without faith?" I countered, and the voice said: "You have more faith than you know.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#4. With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.
Michael W. Smith
#5. One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
R.C. Sproul
#6. Jesus said, But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.
Pat Schneider
#7. He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.
Denis Johnson
#9. I pray for the courage
To walk naked
At any age
To wear red and purple,
To be unladylike,
Inappropriate,
Scandalous and incorrect
To the very end.
Gloria Steinem
#10. I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.
Herman Melville
#13. Father God, I ask You to lead me when I'm blinded by ways I have not known, along unfamiliar paths please guide me; Lord, turn the darkness into light before me and make the rough places smooth. I pray these are the things You will do; I know You will not forsake me. (Isa. 42:16)
Beth Moore
#14. I get that. For you, it's more than following a bunch of rules - no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#15. Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.
Howard Zinn
#16. The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
David Jeremiah
#17. Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.
Billy Graham
#18. Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.
Adolf Hitler
#20. When you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans. MATTHEW 6:7 NIV
Billy Graham
#21. Because teenage girls don't pray to God, they pray to each other. They clasp their hands over a keyboard and then they let it all out, a (stupid) girl's heart tucked into another girl's heart.
Courtney Summers
#22. I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.
Billy Graham
#24. Parents, pray that God may crown your home with grace and mercy.
Billy Graham
#25. Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.
Sathya Sai Baba
#26. I tell you, those Spaniards are rank cowards, as all bullies are. They pray to a woman, the idolatrous rascals! and no wonder they fight like women.
Charles Kinglsey
#28. You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.
Timothy B. Tyson
#29. Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!
Robert D. Hales
#30. Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God ... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.
Howard Thurman
#31. I want every health care professional, every first-responder, every citizen, every visitor to know that in Florida we continue to prepare for the worst. But we pray for the best.
Rick Scott
#32. Those who are fascinated by evil all too easily fall pray to it themselves [said the old priest at the Mission Dolores].
Dianne Day
#33. I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis
#34. But do thou pray unto God and He shall heal thine own sins, and those of thy whole house, and of all the saints.
Anonymous
#35. The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as
Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.
Philip Yancey
#36. Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.
Kenneth Copeland
#37. Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a child. Every day children are coming under the influences of the world. So all these events we can pray for daily. And we can be a Keeper of the Flame with the Maha Chohan
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
#38. 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
#39. I find myself praying more when things are harder. I also find myself drinking water more when I am thirsty, and eating more when I am hungry, and sleeping more when I am tired. And I've finally begun to accept that if I pray more when I am troubled, that's just as natural.
Eric Greitens
#40. A woman who'd lost her first son
consoled us with an angel gone ahead
to pray for our family
gone into that sky
seeking oxygen,
gone into autopsy
Michael S. Harper
#41. I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!
George MacDonald
#42. As believers, you don't need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.
Andrew Wommack
#43. You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write.
I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.
Donna Boyd
#44. I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.
Khaled Hosseini
#45. Study the scriptures; pray morning and night; keep a near, well-groomed appearance; follow a schedule; set and achieve goals; be honest in all your dealings; keep commandments; and always live the standards revealed by prophets.
Robert D. Hales
#47. I do not pray ... I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men ... Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
Zora Neale Hurston
#48. 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
#49. One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
Wanda
Ouida
#50. Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?
Sean Hannity
#51. What to do now, Father? I am going to die like a killer, and I do not even remember killing."
"You can pray, my son. You are in the hands of God now," said the good priest.
Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini
#52. Pray for your own deliverance from your own vicious thoughts.
Bryant McGill
#53. It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#54. Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther
#55. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.
Katy Perry
#56. I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
Billy Graham
#57. With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God?
Rumi
#58. Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
Oswald Chambers
#59. If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
Rebecca West
#60. Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
William Gurnall
#61. If you are not in good terms with the one who sent you, you can't have the right direction to the errands he wants to send you for. Be in good talking terms with God; pray without ceasing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
Martin Buber
#63. Throughout the world today there are people who are enduring cruelties and persecution because of their Christian faith. We must pray for them, and for ourselves, so that in our own dying hour God will give us grace to endure until the end, anticipating the certainty of His glory to come.
Billy Graham
#64. The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.
Stormie O'martian
#65. We must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.
Adolf Hitler
#66. If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.
Wayne Grudem
#68. The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of
love, can only be understood in prayer.
Pray and weep, kneeling before the
Cross.
Pope Francis
#70. If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
Alexander Whyte
#71. You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
Vera Farmiga
#72. Melisandre: I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only snow.
George R R Martin
#73. To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.
Ole Hallesby
#74. Jesus did not teach His disciples how to preach but how to pray. To know how to speak to God is more vital than knowing how to speak to men. It is power with God not man that is of supreme
Andrew Murray
#75. 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
#76. I have somewhere read of a wise bishop who in a visit to his diocese found an old woman whose only prayer consisted in the single interjection "Oh!-
"Good mother" said he to her, "continue to pray in this manner; your prayer is better than ours." This better prayer is mine also.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#77. 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
#78. And they were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
Terry Pratchett
#79. Teagan - "What is it?"
Garreth - "No one's ever prayed for me before. I've always heard your prayers. You prayed for me to come to you when you had a bad dream. I even heard you pray for a perfect, selfless, superwonderful boy to fall in love with. But I've never heard you pray for me.
Jennifer Murgia
#80. Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.
Robert Stacy McCain
#81. There are hundred reasons to worry but the only way to keep out of this 'net' of worry is to pray.
Sanchita Pandey
#82. I pray that you win, that you never ever pay for any of my sins
Banky W.
#83. Let us resolve by God's grace that, however feeble and poor our prayers may seem to us, we will pray on.
J.C. Ryle
#84. The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
Mother Teresa
#87. I'd heard of Vlad Dracul, but only the name. The kids at Cotton Maher never said much except things like "The football team's up against Vlad this Saturday. Pray for them."
When I'd heard that, I'd asked the kid who'd said it what the big deal was.
"Shut up," he'd explained.
Douglas Rees
#88. But us, we got a job to do, and there's a thousand ways, and we don't know which one to take. And if I was to pray, it'd be for the folks that don't know which way to turn.
John Steinbeck
#89. One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75
William Kilpatrick
#90. If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
Bill Hybels
#91. You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.
Matthew Henry
#92. Learn how to pray with all your heart, applying all your energy to concentrate on one specific goal.
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't.
Paul Gerhardt
#94. We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret
perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
Chinua Achebe
#96. Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,
And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep
and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,
the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#97. We don't miss what we never had, but we miss terribly things we almost had. And we miss things we used to have most of all. Through we hope and pray for our relationships, our looks, and our lives to improve, having more also means having more to lose.
Tonya Hurley
#98. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
William Nicholson
#99. Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
Mike Huckabee
#100. You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono
