Top 100 Quotes About Praying
#1. True humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you; not more and not less.
Praying Medic
#2. There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.
Charles Spurgeon
#3. The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
Will Rogers
#4. It is not enough to celebrate Christmas. We need to be changed and shaped by what we are celebrating. If our spiritual life is no better in spite of all our praying, fasting, and church services, then we have not yet begun to fully respond to the significance of Advent and of the Nativity.
Vassilios Papavassiliou
#5. 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
#6. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.
Syed Ather
#7. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Francois Fenelon
#8. The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#9. Sounds to me like you're praying Violet, not wishing. When we wish, it's usually for something frivolous...Something not serious. Like what you want for your birthday. Prayers are for more serious things." -Mom
Brenda Woods
#11. Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
Karen Kain
#12. It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous. Make sure they are always very 'spiritual', that he is always concerned with the state of her soul and never with her rheumatism.
C.S. Lewis
#13. The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
Ole Hallesby
#14. (Devon) "Cam - you're killing me," she quavered, pressing her head back into the pillow and praying for patience. Her heart was pounding.
"I'm loving you," he corrected in a hot whisper, then took her nipple deep into his mouth as his palm brushed over the damp lace covering her core.
Kaylea Cross
#15. Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'
Peter Kreeft
#17. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.
Dwight L. Moody
#18. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.
Nick Vujicic
#19. Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.
James Martin
#20. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .
Gaurav Rao
#21. Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.
Pope Francis
#22. They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.
Randy Travis
#23. At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.
Ai Yazawa
#24. Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer
Neal Pirolo
#27. I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.
Mother Teresa
#28. Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#30. I went to church. It didn't help. In those days that was the best place to meet a girlfriend. In church! All of us praying to be different.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#31. Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.
Mark Hart
#32. The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray
Ronald Reagan
#33. the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to
Albert C. Outler
#34. He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
Herman Melville
#35. Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.
Robin Hobb
#36. All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.
Shameik Moore
#37. We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom
Desmond Tutu
#39. Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.
Monica Johnson
#40. The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it.
Sandra Dee
#41. In praying to God for souls, he realizes it is not so important to know the souls for whom he is praying, as Him to Whom he is praying. But
Dom Jean Leclerq
#42. I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year
Beth Moore
#43. If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.
Joel Osteen
#44. Whatcha doing, Lieu?" she asked cautiously. "Praying," he muttered. "I suck at it."
"Your doing it wrong," she said flatly. "I'm not big on church, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to do it with a friend.
Amy Lane
#45. I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#46. I also enjoyed praying at night for forgiveness, secure in the knowledge I'd not really done anything in need of forgiving.
Melanie Benjamin
#47. Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.
Napoleon Hill
#50. Tell me what a man does in the matter of Bible-reading and praying, in the matter of Sunday, public worship, and the Lord's Supper, and I will soon tell you what he is, and on which road he is travelling.
J.C. Ryle
#51. He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.
Sarada Devi
#52. Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
William Gurnall
#53. It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.
Ephrem The Syrian
#55. Moreover, during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at the moment he prayed, he believed. But that moment had passed, and he could not make his state of mind at that moment fit into the rest of his life.
Leo Tolstoy
#56. Walking, talking, reading, drawing, praying, telling stories: the nourishment is there, as close as our own breath. We only have to pause a moment, notice, and enjoy.
Christian McEwen
#57. When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#59. 'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.
Henry B. Eyring
#60. Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
Jeremy Taylor
#61. Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against them.
Alan Bradley
#62. God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.
David Platt
#63. I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.
Jack Miller
#64. I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do ...
Elizabeth Gilbert
#65. That was the treachery of suffering. It took you to the point from which you thought death must follow, then let you know it could hold you there indefinitely. That was when you stopped fearing death and started wanting it, praying for it, begging for it.
Glen Duncan
#66. God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
John Vianney
#67. I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best ...
Ali Larter
#68. Go out and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and preach the kingdom. But do it for only one reason. Your motive should be an overwhelming love and compassion for those in need. There is no other legitimate motive for healing.
Praying Medic
#70. I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations ... I pray three times a day. I try to have a real experience praying, not just do it. I really get deep into the idea and really try to get somewhere with it, to have an in-depth understanding of the idea.
Matisyahu
#71. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
Mark Batterson
#72. Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.
Oren Arnold
#73. Praying men are a necessity in carrying out the divine plan for the salvation of men.
E. M. Bounds
#74. Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#75. For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.
Hafez
#76. I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
Francois Rabelais
#77. Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
Marianne Williamson
#78. When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.
Douglas Booth
#79. I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.
Robert Crumb
#80. All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
Kobayashi Issa
#81. I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
Francois Rabelais
#82. Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Francois Fenelon
#83. Roger Webb shared this testimony on Facebook about how some
Praying Medic
#84. I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray to receive Christ' on it. I had never seen a tract in my life. I had never read a Bible.
Jim Hamilton
#85. When men cough or talk into their own hands, they are praying to their own bones, hoping to change their minds about something.
Ben Marcus
#86. I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.
Jodi Picoult
#87. I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
Abraham Lincoln
#88. Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
David Jeremiah
#89. Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
John Ray
#90. The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
Ben Jonson
#92. When you get down on your knees praying for help, God's gonna look at you and keep doing what He was doing
Thulani Davis
#93. It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.
Charles Spurgeon
#94. 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
#96. I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
Mark Batterson
#97. If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place,
Nick Vujicic
#98. I've learned ... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
Andy Rooney
#99. I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.
Pope Francis
#100. Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you
Christine Caine
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