Quotes About Praying For Others

#1. I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

C.S. Lewis

#2. I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

Samuel Rutherford

#3. 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

#4. To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.

Robin Hobb

#6. From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

Napoleon Hill

#8. I also enjoyed praying at night for forgiveness, secure in the knowledge I'd not really done anything in need of forgiving.

Melanie Benjamin

#9. I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#10. 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

#11. If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.

Joel Osteen

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.

Monica Johnson

#16. Prayer is the breath of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom

Desmond Tutu

#18. 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

#19. In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

Dennis Rodman

#20. Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

Lancelot Andrewes

#21. You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.

John Fire Lame Deer

#22. When you pray for others you're praying for yourself.

Okisha Jackson

#23. It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them.

Charles Brent

#24. You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,
you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.

Billy Graham

#25. Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

Michael E. DeBakey

#26. Meditation is a spiritual human activity like mourning, fasting, or praying, and is not limited to one religious group while remaining unavailable to others. (103)

David Brazzeal

#27. Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Teresa Of Avila

#28. Southerners don't gossip; Southerners pray for one other. Of course, you have to know the details of the sinner's sins to get any good praying done, then you have to recruit others to pray, and they need the details too. It's called Prayer Circle.

Gretchen Archer

#29. There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

Samuel Chadwick

#30. 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

#31. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

William Gurnall

#32. 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

#33. Quit praying about yourself and be spent for others as the bondslave of Jesus. That is the meaning of being made broken bread and poured-out wine in reality.

Oswald Chambers

#34. Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

Gordon B. Hinckley

#35. We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

Mother Teresa

#36. 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

#37. I'm praying for a misdemeanor

Bobby Bowden

#38. 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

#39. (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

#40. The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

Ole Hallesby

#41. 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

#42. Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

Karen Kain

#43. Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#44. 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

#45. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.

Dwight L. Moody

#46. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Francois Fenelon

#47. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.

Syed Ather

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Will Rogers

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Herman Melville

#54. 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

#55. Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.

James Martin

#56. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .

Gaurav Rao

#57. Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

Pope Francis

#58. They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

Randy Travis

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. May my children and descendants know God and keep His ways.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

Mother Teresa

#63. 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

#64. Prayer, divine act.
Pray always.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray

Ronald Reagan

#68. 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