Top 100 Quotes About Prayed For
#1. I crawled in a spirit-haunted place
Made wild by souls that moan and mourn;
And Death leered by with mangled face -
Ah God! I prayed, I prayed for dawn.
Arthur Newberry 1893- Choyce
#2. 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
#3. she worked and prayed for the welfare of humans for over ten million years. Then she was transformed into a goddess whose only desire was to ease the world's pain.
Kris Waldherr
#4. 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
#5. He tried everything from science to voodoo, everything buy prayer. That, at least, I could give him in abundance. I prayed ceaselessly for him, a desperate human prayer. Not for his life, no one could take that cup from him, but for the strength to endure the unendurable.
Patti Smith
#6. I find that those who voted for George W. Bush are less offended by his religious references, and those who voted for Bill Clinton did not seem offended at all when people prayed at his inauguration.
Gwen Ifill
#7. Was I going mad? I prayed for warmth and daylight. I prayed for my sanity.
Robin Bridges
#8. When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.
Charles Stanley
#9. And finally i prayed for the mouse-I prayed that he didn't get hurt when he went flying out the door of the open arms baptist church of naomi. I prayed that he landed on a nice patch of grass.
Kate DiCamillo
#10. In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.
Pliny The Younger
#11. God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#12. If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.
Stephen Richards
#13. As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.
Brendan Fraser
#14. Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
Thomas Arnold
#15. And the living prayed to their gods and begged for rescue from the armies of the dead, and there was no answer. For there are no gods.
Stacia Kane
#16. No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
Martin Luther
#17. I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
Samuel Johnson
#18. Zane didn't laugh this time. In years past he had sat uncounted times in the dark of night,smoking, shooting up, drinking, wondering if the coming morning would be the one when he didn't wake up. Sometimes he'd even prayed for it. But not since Ty. Yeah, he believed in miracles.
Abigail Roux
#19. Some men prayed for life and some for death, in languages as varied as their uniforms - the Dutch and Germans and the Scots and French and English tangled side by side, for all men looked alike when they were dying.
Susanna Kearsley
#20. I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.
Adoniram Judson
#21. I closed my eyes and prayed for divine intervention.
I waited a beat and nothing happened.
Guess God was busy with war and famine and the like.
Kristen Ashley
#22. You have no excuse to give ... Jonah prayed fervently even in the belly of the shark! Environment is not a barrier!
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. Remember the days you prayed for the things you have now.
Unknown
#24. I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
Jorge Luis Borges
#25. The world will hate us. That's okay. We've been prayed for to be kept. Do you think God will honor Christ's prayer? If He's going to listen to any prayer, surely He'll listen to His own Son's. He prayed to keep us.
Fred Lybrand
#26. Lubo Penev is a fighter, he never gives up and remains cool during tough moments. I remember when he was sick with cancer, but fought and returned to football. Most people would have given up and prayed to God for mercy.
(on former teammate Luboslav Penev)
Hristo Stoichkov
#27. I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
Richard Rohr
#28. I have everything I prayed for. I know most would condemn me and think I've lost my soul, but I know in my heart that I have not. What can be more precious than to find true love.
Patty G. Henderson
#29. It is important when we have a need to go to God in prayer. I know, whenever I have prayed earnestly, that I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes." - Martin Luther, "What a Great Gift We Have in Prayer"9
Richard J. Foster
#30. I clutched the handle of the door. Squeezed it. Settled my other hand along the doorway and prayed. Not for anything in particular. Just for the sake of doing it. To see if it would change things. To see if it would change me.
Emily Ruth Verona
#31. Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.
Marianne Williamson
#32. Freddy prayed silently. "Help me to love people for who they are inside." The
Maggie Plummer
#33. When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
Ole Hallesby
#34. I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.
Brother Lawrence
#35. We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.
Charles Fillmore
#36. All of us prayed for normal. But so far, normal only meant more misery.
Katie McGarry
#37. Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected.
Squire Rushnell
#38. She wept for every person who had ever been in a war, and she prayed that someday there would be no more fighting, and people could finally live in peace.
Mark Nolan
#39. Child, you have prayed. Trust God that he has not abandoned you. You asked for help, yet you do not rest in his power.
Ruth Reid
#40. There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.
Lauren Oliver
#41. While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
Victoria Woodhull
#42. When I prayed to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior, I had made that promise ... : 'If You'll make Your will for my clear, I'll do it no matter what!'
Larry Burkett
#43. I was never a man of great ambition
I cried too easily
I didn't have a head for science
Words often failed me
While others prayed I only moved my lips
Nicole Krauss
#44. Gabe prayed for the strength not to strangle his future father-in-law for the fiftieth time.
Melanie Dickerson
#45. Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'
Maya Angelou
#46. 4 I prayed to the LORD, and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears. 5 Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces. 6 In my desperation I prayed, and the LORD listened; he saved me from all my troubles.
Anonymous
#47. I prayed for her to leave so I could breath again.
I prayed for her to buy a book so I would have to talk to her.
Maggie Stiefvater
#48. Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.
Alyssa Day
#49. I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.
Andrew Krivak
#50. There's only one utter ending for each of us, and it isn't one we reach toward. Until then, it's the next change, and the next change, and the next. And profound change, even when it's the one you prayed for, is displacing.
Daniel Abraham
#51. I pinched the bridge of my nose and prayed for patience. Sometimes I felt like Di was a pain in the ass on purpose.
B.B. Reid
#53. I prayed to Woden for forgiveness, but I think he felt no ill will for me. We are but men. He has done worse.
Alaric Longward
#54. Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.
Melina Marchetta
#55. I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.
Eugene B. Sledge
#56. I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!
Susan Smith
#57. If she tried, she could recall almost all their faces, if not their names, the hundreds of men she had nursed and soothed and even, before she had lost the habit entirely, prayed for on her knees before bed each night.
Jennifer Robson
#58. She prayed to the gods of love and the gods of destruction, for they are one and the same.
Lawren Leo
#59. We had killed them all without firing a shot. I prayed for the snow to fall and bury them for ever. When the snow falls you can almost believe the world is clean again. Is every snowflake different? No one knows.
Jeanette Winterson
#60. We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.
Alan Redpath
#61. She had not prayed directly for the recovery of the baby - she had prayed that they might find a pearl with which to hire the doctor to cure the baby, for the minds of people are as unsubstantial as the mirage of the Gulf.
John Steinbeck
#62. They prayed for it, they want it, but when they got it, they complained.
Orson Scott Card
#63. Funny," [Antryg] said, "if you're a mage, they always ask you to read the future, as if knowing it will help. I think three-fourths of all prayers prayed are for two and two not to equal four.
Barbara Hambly
#64. What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.
Sophocles
#65. All right, who prayed for the miracle?" he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. "You're all promoted. Nice work.
Evan Currie
#66. I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
Manny Pacquiao
#67. I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.
Lorrie Moore
#68. Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#69. If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it.
Sunday Adelaja
#70. For all night long I dreamed of you:
I woke and prayed against my will, Then slept to dream of you again.
Christina Rossetti
#71. An elderly black man stepped forward and prayed aloud for Lincoln's safety. Much to Coffin's surprise, the President "lifted his own hat from his head and bowed to the old man."24
Noah Andre Trudeau
#72. The fountain of my heart dried up within me,
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death.
Charles Robert Maturin
#73. I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that "someone" was me.
Kate McGahan
#74. I remembered a scripture they read us from the Bible about God not putting more on us than we could bear. I was beginning to wonder if that was just for those people who went to church every Sunday and prayed before they went to bed at night. Because he wasn't holding back any punches with me.
Abbi Glines
#75. Please forgive me for the way I've treated her, Rachel prayed. Please help me repair the damage I've done. Help her to forgive me too. Oh merciful Father, help me not to be so full of myself that there is no room for anyone else. And worse, no room for you.
Julie Klassen
#76. I love you. You're everything I have ever prayed for, even when I did'nt know what I wanted.
~Aiden
Ann Mayburn
#77. Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.
Toni Morrison
#78. The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
Andy Behrman
#79. Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
Johanna Spyri
#80. Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
Gad Elmaleh
#81. The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#82. It's going to be all right, I said, prayed in my head. Oh let it. Let us cross, let us across. Just this once and I'll do anything. What I thought I could do for whoever was listening that would be of the least use or even interest I'll never know.
Margaret Atwood
#83. That man who had prayed for the fasces, when he attains them, desires to lay them aside and says over and over: "When will this year be over!
Seneca.
#84. Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. Satan
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#85. I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.
Brion James
#86. A stab of pain always pierced him when he saw her eyes. Some people's eyes were so fucking intense, it was hard to look at them - those were often ones that had seen the hell of war and all its associated horrors. But hers were even worse. Hers had prayed for death and had been denied.
Elaine Levine
#87. A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
Juvenal
#88. I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.
Horace
#89. 'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
Allan Gurganus
#90. 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
#91. It had changed to hate. The hate that she prayed for Jesus to take away. But it was also part of what had kept her going so how could she do without it now? That kind of hate is a species of animated scrap metal. Rusting,
corroding inside, leaching into the vital organs.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#92. There have been times in my life I prayed for change.
For rescue.
For strength.
For answers.
There have been times in my life I blamed others for everything that went wrong, bypassing accepting responsibility, because it was easier.
Kim Holden
#93. It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#94. We had a son, whom we named Bertran. Just the one, though I prayed for more. Loving him made me rich in ways I'd too long been poor.
Julie Berry
#95. I never did get around to praying for myself, did I? Maybe that's what was behind it, though. Myself. Maybe the only reason I'd prayed for others to begin with was to bring myself good fortune. Was that true? Was it?
Markus Zusak
#96. If ever I did a good deed in my life - if ever I thought a good thought - if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer - if ever I wished a righteous wish, - I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.
Charlotte Bronte
#97. You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.
Randy Travis
#98. Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.
Hosea Ballou
#99. Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.
Meg Howrey
#100. Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
Ann Patchett
