Top 100 Quotes About Praying
#1. When I begin praying Christ into someone's life, God often permits suffering in that person's life. If Satan's basic game plan is pride, seeking to draw us into his life of arrogance, then God's basic game plan is humility, drawing us into the life of his Son.
Paul E. Miller
#3. Fasting and praying gets you to where God wants you to be. You must make the sacrifice of fasting and praying to get something extraordinary from God.
Robert N. Fortson Sr.
#4. No." I've fallen asleep praying for you to look at me like this. To touch me like this. "Don't break my heart." Moth shadows glide above him in the mirrored ceiling, distracting me from the fierceness of his frown. "I'd cut mine out first.
A.G. Howard
#5. I have been praying, too, for the first time in my life. That parson, Tugwell, he helped me see - not the error of my ways, for I knew them all to well already - but what was wanting in me. I am far from perfect, I know, but I am changed and changing still
Julie Klassen
#6. I found myself praying: May I love and accept myself just as I am.
Tara Brach
#7. The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.
Leonard Ravenhill
#8. Whatever affects the intensity of our praying affects the value of our work.
E. M. Bounds
#9. Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Ernest Holmes
#10. If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying; we would have had a three times more educated people than the whole world's population.
M.F. Moonzajer
#11. 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
#12. When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit, praying therewith for the overthrow of all the works of Satan done through the evil powers.
Watchman Nee
#13. Praying in tongues charges your spirit like a battery charger charges a battery.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#14. As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.
Charles Spurgeon
#15. Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed
David A. Bednar
#16. I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.
Kim Wilde
#19. God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you're praying for a million dollars and God said, "I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested," it's done, in Jesus' name.
Pat Robertson
#20. If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!
Brigham Young
#21. They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.
Lalita Tademy
#22. Learned desperation is at the heart of a praying life.
Paul E. Miller
#23. At a Clinton press conference, I'm given the luxury of daydreaming, of being comfortable enough that he could find Peru on a map, say, that I don't have to hang on his every word, praying he won't fuck up.
Sarah Vowell
#24. Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert
#25. Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.
Mary Webb
#26. Instead of doing 'Af-for-mations' where you are praying FOR something, do 'Af-FROM-mations' where you are praying FROM the realization that you already are whole and complete and already have everything within you.
Derek Rydall
#27. There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, praying on your behalf.
Henry Rollins
#28. You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.
Will Rogers
#29. I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.
Billy Graham
#30. Praying God's solutions from the Word releases life, but praying negatively and focusing on your problems only energizes and strengthens them.
Andrew Wommack
#31. I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.
John Niven
#32. Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
Neal A. Maxwell
#33. No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice.
Dan Brown
#34. Praying is not about asking; it's about listening ...
It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
#35. People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that.
Marc Martel
#36. When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God.
John Of Kronstadt
#37. You are to my soul what God is to a mother praying for her child at the altar.
Malak El Halabi
#38. There is something about me, doll face. It's between my legs, and I do believe a few minutes ago you were praying to it.
Debra Anastasia
#39. If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#40. When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.
Matthew Henry
#41. If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#42. The "eat" part was easy. The praying and loving were harder.
Kate Atkinson
#43. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.
Bill Fitch
#44. Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman,
Andre Benjamin
#45. The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#47. I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.
Oprah Winfrey
#48. Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#49. There have been revivals without much preaching; there have been revivals with absolutely no organization; but there has never been a mighty revival without mighty praying.
Various
#51. If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
Alexander Whyte
#52. Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
Ann Voskamp
#54. I was pretty sure everyone was praying for different things. I wondered how Allah would sort it all out.
Nadia Hashimi
#55. Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes nothing in particular".
Peter Kreeft
#56. When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.
Mary Engelbreit
#57. The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.
Oswald Chambers
#58. Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.
Alphonsus Liguori
#59. After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#60. The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#61. Why isn't everyone praying all the time? Who cares why everyone isn't praying all the time - you pray all the time.
Art Hochberg
#62. That was the thing about love. It didn't leave because you told it to go. It simply stayed quiet, bleeding out from the pain, still praying you wouldn't let it slip away.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#63. The hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers. If you don't guard your heart, unresolved anger toward God can undermine faith.
Mark Batterson
#64. As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
Harriet Tubman
#65. Victories are won while on your knees! Keep praying for those who rise up against you. Fear not. The Lord has rectified the problem. Prayer is POWERFUL!!
Anita R. Sneed-Carter
#66. When I see guys huddling up after the game, to pray, that's what scares me about the game. I'm a Baptist, but I'm also a quarterback killer, and I ain't praying with you. But I will give you 30 seconds to ask your Lord and master to keep me from killing you.
Deacon Jones
#67. Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.
Mike Huckabee
#68. In attitude, faith is "restful", but in action, it is "powerful". Praying in tongues has both a restful and powerful effect upon our lives because it is an active expression of our faith.
Robert C. Frost
#69. By praying for our husbands and looking to the Lord rather than to our circumstances, we trust Him to carry both our husband and his burden. Then from the overflow of our hearts, we can give back to and encourage our men.
Shaunti Feldhahn
#70. The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
Richard Cecil
#71. I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.
Charles Spurgeon
#72. No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
Rita Mae Brown
#73. In these times of Darkness, I keep dreaming of a better tomorrow, and praying my soul won't be corrupted.
These are Gudrun's words and thoughts. She is living in a troubled world, where only the strong can be free.
She is a Fantasy character you find on The Art of Isis Sousa & Guests!
Isis Sousa
#74. If he wins, we'll feel its God's will. If he loses, we'll feel its God's will. I'm praying he'll win. Mostly, I'm just glad all this tension will be over.
Paul Gallender
#75. We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.
Thomas Merton
#76. That werewolf fantasy would be a hard one to pull off. She'd have to troll through the forest in high heels, just praying one of the scruffy campers was actually a raving beast.
Victoria Dahl
#77. Pray continuously, and never stop praying, regardless of what state you in.
Jennifer M. Malone
#78. God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#79. He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy
every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.
Chaim Potok
#80. Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.
Warren Eyster
#81. The English, thought Kate, obviously regarded praying much as they did a necessary physical function, something best done in private. Dalgliesh apologized for interrupting her work: We're police officers and I'm afraid we're here on police business. Were you
P.D. James
#82. Percy: Dad-
Poseidon: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.
Percy: I'm praying, I'm talking to you, right?
Poseidon: Oh ... yes. Good point.
Rick Riordan
#84. Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
Frederick Douglass
#86. I danced out my pain ... It felt like praying, like flying.
Christie Watson
#87. The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.
Evagrius Ponticus
#88. The whole house came up and I came up with it ... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
Willie Nelson
#89. Praying and fasting are the main weapons against the psychological attacks of the devil.
Sunday Adelaja
#90. I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.
Reverend Malcolm Boyd
#91. It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying ... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.
Charisma Carpenter
#92. Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.
Mark Batterson
#93. He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.
Geraldine Brooks
#94. I found that for me, the bottom line was that God was creation itself. I was praying to whatever caused things to exist. I thought that it also inhabited those things. For me, God was both the prerequisite for existence and its animating, incarnating element.
Margaret D. McGee
#95. In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#96. Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.
Charles Grandison Finney
#97. We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
Jodi Picoult
#98. I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
Billy Graham
#99. My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.
Roma Downey
#100. Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are the breathing of the Holy Spirit; as it were spiritual air and also light, spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual raiment.
John Of Kronstadt
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