Quotes About Praying For Someone

#1. 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

#2. Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things or asking Him for good things. Maybe it's just the act of praying and feeling that there's someone up there listening that makes us feel better and less helpless.

Sarah Darer Littman

#3. Similarly, while prayer is frequently a person's first response to a disaster, it's often the least helpful. Instead of praying for disaster victims, it would be more helpful to donate blood, send donations or volunteer. These are actions that can actually have a positive effect on someone.

Armin Navabi

#4. 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

#5. I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best ...

Ali Larter

#6. You are a new creation by the blood of Jesus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Wishing you the best, and praying for your success.

Diana Mankin Phelps

#11. It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

Ephrem The Syrian

#12. Those you know the least may need your prayers the most. Don't let the fact that you don't know someone keep you from praying for them.

Billy Graham

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Napoleon Hill

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

Melanie Benjamin

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

Lara Flynn Boyle

#20. 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

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

Joel Osteen

#22. Pray to god someone prays for me

Kevin Gates

#23. It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.

John Stott

#24. If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. For me, writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You feel that you are with someone.

Marilynne Robinson

#26. If the will of God was for us to be sick, then no one disregarded the will of God more than Jesus. Every time He healed someone, He may have cheated them of a lesson they needed to develop their character.

Praying Medic

#27. I was shocked that someone I didn't even know would take the time to pray for me.

Divine

#28. If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.

J.C. Ryle

#29. I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey

#30. Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They're dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they're dead! They have no living relationship (with God).

Leonard Ravenhill

#31. We do this job because every once in a while someone is out there without hope, desperately praying for their life, and we get to be the answer.

U.S. Coast Guard

#32. 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

#33. Someone says, 'oh, you know what? I'm going to give you a shot to see what you can do', and you've been praying for a promotion, now someone gives you an opportunity, that's a miracle.

DeVon Franklin

#34. I pray for him. It's very difficult to dislike someone for whom you are praying.

Jack Canfield

#35. I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.

Ron Pope

#36. 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

#37. Sometimes you can just feel when someone has been praying for you. Whomever it is Thank you!!

Amanda Penland

#38. Crying had made her want a shoulder on which to rest her head, arms to hold her. She'd wasted too many tears alone in her room, her garden, walking along the shore, praying for God to send her someone to share her sorrows along with her joys.

Laurie Alice Eakes

#39. It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

Elizabeth George

#40. Those shiny eyes like the stars in the sky; but black and brown,
And those beautiful lips like the flowers but sugary
And those kind smells, lovable but with no purpose
All meant to be for me?
Someone must have been praying and wishing me the whole world

M.F. Moonzajer

#41. Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

George Carlin

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

Karen Kain

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

Pope Francis

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

Gaurav Rao

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

James Martin

#46. 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

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

Dwight L. Moody

#48. I'm praying for a misdemeanor

Bobby Bowden

#49. 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

#50. (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

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

Ole Hallesby

#52. 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

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

Randy Travis

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

Mata Amritanandamayi

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

Francois Fenelon

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

Syed Ather

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Will Rogers

#62. 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

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

Ronald Reagan

#64. 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

#65. 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

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

Monica Johnson

#67. Prayer is the breath of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Desmond Tutu

#69. 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

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

Robin Hobb

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

Herman Melville

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. Prayer, divine act.
Pray always.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#77. 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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

William Gurnall

#81. 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

#82. 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