Quotes About Praying For Yourself

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

Okisha Jackson

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

Desmond Tutu

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Mother Teresa

#5. 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

#6. Prayer, divine act.
Pray always.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Ronald Reagan

#10. 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

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

Herman Melville

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

Robin Hobb

#13. 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

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

William Gurnall

#15. Prayer is the breath of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Monica Johnson

#17. 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

#18. I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.

Anne Lamott

#19. Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

Neville Goddard

#20. At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#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. Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

T.D. Jakes

#23. [Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#24. You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

Benjamin Carson

#25. From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Will Rogers

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Syed Ather

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

Francois Fenelon

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Mata Amritanandamayi

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

Karen Kain

#39. 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

#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. (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

#42. 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

#43. I'm praying for a misdemeanor

Bobby Bowden

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

Dwight L. Moody

#45. 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

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

James Martin

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

Gaurav Rao

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

Pope Francis

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

Randy Travis

#50. 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