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. Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.

Oswald Chambers

#5. 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

#6. Was I going mad? I prayed for warmth and daylight. I prayed for my sanity.

Robin Bridges

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Kate heard the bravado in her friend's voice and saw it in her eyes. "I prayed for you." "You did?" Tully asked. "Wow. Thanks." Kate didn't know what to say to that. To her, praying was like brushing your teeth before bed, just something you did. Tully

Kristin Hannah

#11. I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.
Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life ...

Sanhita Baruah

#12. 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

#13. If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

#14. The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.

David A. Bednar

#15. 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

#16. I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her

Leonard Cohen

#17. Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#18. The only exception was my mother, who unabashedly took up for Adnan, fought with anyone who had anything negative to say about him, never stopped talking about him with Aunty Shamim, and prayed for him with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. I

Rabia Chaudry

#19. I had watched him single handedly rip the head off a zombie as he had simultaneously prayed for its soul. When you witness a man do something like that, it changes your perception of them.

Andrew Cormier

#20. As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

Brendan Fraser

#21. 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

#22. Even avatars have to desire to be in God in every moment. And when avatars die, they desire with all their being to be united with God. ... .. Look at Ramakrishna.
How much he wept and prayed for the Divine Mother.

Mother Meera

#23. I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

Billy Graham

#24. At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

Anais Nin

#25. Then he prayed for ( ... ) and all the rest who made up his world.

Jan Karon

#26. What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grace, with love, with self-denial, semen and babies.

Margaret Atwood

#27. He comes.
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up.

Casey Renee Kiser

#28. 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

#29. What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

John Flavel

#30. prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.

Willa Cather

#31. 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

#32. The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Albert Schweitzer

#33. If you're really thinking prayer can stop rockets or bullets, you have to ask why some people do get hit by rockets or bullets. Are they people who no one prayed for? Are they people who God just didn't like? I don't think so.

John Shelby Spong

#34. 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

#35. He prayed for clear skies and discovery, for danger and heartache and laughter, for a life beyond fear, a life that got bigger, really got bigger, as it receded.

Jonathan Evison

#36. 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

#37. Remember the days you prayed for the things you have now.

Unknown

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression.

Gary Chapman

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Brother Lawrence

#45. We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.

Charles Fillmore

#46. All of us prayed for normal. But so far, normal only meant more misery.

Katie McGarry

#47. Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

#48. 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

#49. I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it ... I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.

Helen Prejean

#50. I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

Brendan Fraser

#51. Who did you pray for?"
I stared down at the lake. "I prayed for Mandy."
"That's so sweet."
"Yeah, I asked God to make her less annoying.

M.K. Schiller

#52. I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.

Wolfman Jack

#53. She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.

Hillary Jordan

#54. 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

#55. Oh shit, you had to be bloody careful when you invoked God; He could amuse Himself by granting what you'd prayed for ...

Ariana Franklin

#56. Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Charles Churchill

#57. It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.

Oscar Wilde

#58. While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Victoria Woodhull

#59. Gabe prayed for the strength not to strangle his future father-in-law for the fiftieth time.

Melanie Dickerson

#60. When they prayed for rain, they carried an umbrella.

Larry Osborne

#61. I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him
even if I was no longer on earth.

Alexandra Adornetto

#62. Lauren closed her eyes, remembering how desperate she had been this morn in Chartres, how she had prayed for divine intervention to stop her wedding.
She had never expected that intervention to be riding a black horse and wielding a sword.

Shelly Thacker

#63. Thinking about justice and mercy and grace, Frederick Douglass said, "I prayed for twenty years. Nothing happened until I got off my knees and started marching with my feet." And that's the role of the church. We already prayed about it. Now let's take action on it. You

Sybrina Fulton

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. My mother knew when to listen and when to pray and when to help. I wonder hoy many people knew the compassion Mary Finlayson held for them and how hard, in the privacy of her God Box, she prayed for them and their struggles.

Mary Lou Quinlan

#67. I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.

Andrew Krivak

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.

V.S. Carnes

#71. As the comedian Emo Phillips once said, "When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn't work in that way - so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness!

Daniel C. Dennett

#72. Maybe if we all prayed for somebody else, somehow we'd all be forgiven.

Robyn Bavati

#73. 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

#74. I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

#75. I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for

Drake

#76. I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.

Princess Margaret

#77. 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

#78. Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

Holly Black

#79. 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

#80. Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Aeschylus

#81. They prayed for it, they want it, but when they got it, they complained.

Orson Scott Card

#82. I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

#83. Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

#84. When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

Mason Cooley

#85. Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said "Thou shalt not," now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, "You will.

Betsy Cornwell

#86. This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.

Richard Bach

#87. We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

Robert E.Lee

#88. Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Joyce Meyer

#89. Abraham's servant prayed for success: "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham" (Gen. 24:12 NASB). This is the first time in Scripture that we read of someone asking God for specific guidance.

Gary L. Thomas

#90. 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

#91. It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

Abigail Adams

#92. I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

Miranda July

#93. Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

John Grisham

#94. All right, who prayed for the miracle?" he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. "You're all promoted. Nice work.

Evan Currie

#95. I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

Manny Pacquiao

#96. He'd grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter? But, in time, he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding, and prayed for those he'd lost, for those he loved, and an end to evil in the world.

Alan Furst

#97. 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

#98. We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.

Matt Shea

#99. 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

#100. If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it.

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