Best 1001 quotes in «praying quotes» category

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You are their God. That is absolutely the truth. Now what are you going to do with this knowledge?

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

The family who prays will never be parted. Their circle in Heaven unbroken shall stand. God will say enter my good faithful servant. The family who prays never shall part.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

The grace of God is the thing that is needful. One should pray for the grace of God.

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.

The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in!

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.