Best 1001 quotes in «praying quotes» category

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

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

Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.

Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.

Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.

To pray diligently is more than half the task.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

To pray well is the better half of study.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.)

Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. I am praying. I'm talking to you, right? Oh...yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!

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.

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

We know that God is in control and we all have ups and downs and fears and uncertainty sometimes. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done.

We little know the things for which we pray.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

...we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

We must pray to God everyday to show we don't forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain unfulfilled we must show our confidence in Him, for He knows best.

Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.