Best 1001 quotes in «praying quotes» category

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

The thought of a man being the murderer of his own daughter in the Twin Peaks was anathema to me. At the time, I had a 2-year-old daughter of my own, and that possibility really turned me off. I was praying that I wouldn't be the one.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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 diligently is more than half the task.

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 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 well is the better half of study.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.)

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 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 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 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.