Best 1001 quotes in «praying quotes» category

The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

'The Night Of.' I pray there will be more.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

The one who sings, prays twice.

The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you need God and how vital having a relationship with Him is.

There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

There is no Muslim version of 'love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you' or 'if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also'.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

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

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 secret of praying is praying in secret.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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