She Prayed Quotes

#1. Since the sum of her experience had told her that the majority of one's prayers to God were not answered, she prayed now directly to us, she called upon the Devil, she implored him.

Norman Mailer

#2. Oh no. Lorelai pulled her hand from Kol's, her skin prickling with heat from absolute humiliation. Maybe if she prayed hard enough, the forest floor would open up and swallow her. If there was any justice in the world, it would swallow Leo too.

C.J. Redwine

#3. Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

Ann Patchett

#4. Dear Lord," she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen.

Daniel Patterson

#5. It had changed to hate. The hate that she prayed for Jesus to take away. But it was also part of what had kept her going so how could she do without it now? That kind of hate is a species of animated scrap metal. Rusting,
corroding inside, leaching into the vital organs.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#6. It was not, she said, confessing to her husband her sleeplessness, that she was afraid. She was only "keepin' them company, an' haudin' the yett open," she said. The latter phrase was her picture-periphrase for praying. She never said she prayed; she held the gate open.

George MacDonald

#7. She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When

Kate Atkinson

#8. God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage? she prayed desperately.

Buchi Emecheta

#9. Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.

Toni Morrison

#10. I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.

Lorrie Moore

#11. She always imagined the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Blessed Mother as points of light in the center of her heart, and as she prayed, the light expanded, flowing through her body and soul, smoothing away knots of guilt and sorrow and fear until her whole being glowed with harmony.

Mary Jo Putney

#12. My mother knew when to listen and when to pray and when to help. I wonder hoy many people knew the compassion Mary Finlayson held for them and how hard, in the privacy of her God Box, she prayed for them and their struggles.

Mary Lou Quinlan

#13. She prayed to the gods of love and the gods of destruction, for they are one and the same.

Lawren Leo

#14. There had to be light at the end of the tunnel and she prayed that she and her daughters would find it soon.

Valenciya Lyons

#15. Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.

Betty Smith

#16. She wept for every person who had ever been in a war, and she prayed that someday there would be no more fighting, and people could finally live in peace.

Mark Nolan

#17. And it might also be that God had nothing to do with it, that it was just the moment that it would have happened anyway, whether she prayed or not.

Orson Scott Card

#18. DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.

K. Howard Joslin

#19. She slid her boot soles onto the surface and nearly laughed at her own absurdity - to be careful not to slip even as she prayed to fall through.

Eowyn Ivey

#20. She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.

Hillary Jordan

#21. Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

Dominique Moceanu

#22. It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown ... it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe ... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

George R R Martin

#23. Simone crossed herself and prayed as she watched headlights coming at them, fast and furious. Her hands shaking from fright, she buckled herself in while Jesse screamed out like a terrified child in the back seat. As if he could die.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. hurt, Hannah prayed to the Lord and wept with many tears. 11 Making a vow, she pleaded, "Lord of Hosts, if You will take notice of Your servant's affliction, remember and not forget me, and give Your servant a son, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

Anonymous

#25. My eyes darted to her, dreading to see the pain I knew I would find. Please, Melanie, you have to know I only wanted this with you.
I couldn't say the words out loud, but I prayed she would understand, that she could see it in my eyes.

A.L. Jackson

#26. Rachel expected that God would give her a second son, but she did not know that this would cost her her life. Many of us have done the same thing. We prayed for a particular matter without knowing what it would cost to have our prayer answered.

Witness Lee

#27. Myrna...prayed God wasn't one of of the men or women she'd betrayed by signing their release. Myrna's weight wasn't all carried around her middle.

Louise Penny

#28. One side of the road:
She said to his Him: You are the man I prayed for

Another side of the road:
He said to his Her: You are the woman I prayed for. She wasn't as beautiful as you are.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#29. I have thanked Him for it," she wrote to her sisters, "more than I have prayed about it.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#30. She had prayed for someone else, anyone else but Den. She'd been hoping for a nice, quiet man like Papa. Instead, the gods had sent her the man who'd scorched the world.

C.L. Wilson

#31. I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying ... mothers are like that, aren't they?

Yuvraj Singh

#32. She inhaled a deep breath and prayed her mother wouldn't freak out. "I, um, met someone?" Also not exactly true, but she wasn't broaching the whole he's-an-ancientgod-who-came-to-life-through-my-snowman conversation. Not yet anyway. Maybe not ever.

Laura Kaye

#33. He had found the courage once in his life to seize a chance at love from a person who knew how to give it. Lena prayed on these two moons that she would find that same courage.

Ann Brashares

#34. After all these years, he couldn't believe he'd recognized her so instantly. He prayed that she wouldn't recognize him, but as her eyes widened, he knew she had.
"Marcos?" she breathed.
And his worst nightmare came true. His cover was blown.

Elizabeth Heiter

#35. Some nights she drowsed, but never for more than an hour. One day, Melisandre prayed, she would not sleep at all. One day she would be free of dreams.

George R R Martin

#36. She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.

Laini Taylor

#37. She had not prayed directly for the recovery of the baby - she had prayed that they might find a pearl with which to hire the doctor to cure the baby, for the minds of people are as unsubstantial as the mirage of the Gulf.

John Steinbeck

#38. If she tried, she could recall almost all their faces, if not their names, the hundreds of men she had nursed and soothed and even, before she had lost the habit entirely, prayed for on her knees before bed each night.

Jennifer Robson

#39. Lord, that she might be safe, he prayed. She and the child.

Diana Gabaldon

#40. Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

K. Howard Joslin

#41. She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.

Kim Wright

#42. Lauren closed her eyes, remembering how desperate she had been this morn in Chartres, how she had prayed for divine intervention to stop her wedding.
She had never expected that intervention to be riding a black horse and wielding a sword.

Shelly Thacker

#43. In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
I want.

Sappho

#44. Neva closed her eyes and prayed aloud, asking God to kiss Belle's dreams with all things pleasant and awaken her in the morning with the reminder of His unwavering presence. Then she gave her daughter a hug and a kiss and tiptoed from the room.

Kim Vogel Sawyer

#45. At every turn I took, I prayed that I would not stumble over her body. Every time I didn't, it gave me hope that she was still alive.

James Patterson

#46. Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she'd hook me up with a clue

Ilona Andrews

#47. Sometimes when Katy prayed, she could almost hear God's answer - the quiet, still resonance of a Scripture deep in her heart or silent words of wisdom spoken by her parents or the Flanigans.

Karen Kingsbury

#48. At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

Anais Nin

#49. Alan prayed she wasn't complying from some sense of obligation. He didn't want that, but neither could he bear for her to leave him to spend another night alone.

Bonnie Dee

#50. Hit ain't sacrilege. Miss Effie Belle says when she cain't think what to have for dinner, she asts God and right off He gives her an idea. To my thinkin', thet's sacrilege."
Miss Love really laughed. "There's not a woman in the world who hasn't prayed what to cook for dinner, Rucker!

Olive Ann Burns

#51. I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

Michael Shannon

#52. she worked and prayed for the welfare of humans for over ten million years. Then she was transformed into a goddess whose only desire was to ease the world's pain.

Kris Waldherr