Best 1001 quotes in «praying quotes» category

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

I am still praying for revolution.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.

I cry and pray and try to find the positive or the lesson for my pain.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying.

I'd been knocking on record companies' doors for so long, and I had gone on a lot of auditions. It's weird when you go to those auditions through the Village Voice or something. You never know what to expect. You just press Floor 3 on the elevator and pray that it's not... You know, anyone can place an ad, so it's really freaky.

I don't believe in praying to win.

I did watching my films with an audience at the beginning when we went to Sundance and we screened The Savages there. I watched it, and I was just praying to God it worked, because we weren't even finished. I was just hoping it worked, so half of it was just, "Phew.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.

I don't think that I'll always necessarily be, I guess, famous. I think, hopefully I'll just have longevity at what I love. So, I kind of think it's about taking the right steps and the right roles, and doing the best you can... and praying.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.

I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray to receive Christ' on it. I had never seen a tract in my life. I had never read a Bible.

I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!

If necessary, I cry. I pray. I rest. I'm fortunate to have quite a few strong, independent, loving, and unbiased women in my life that I can talk things through with.

If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.