Best 1001 quotes in «praying quotes» category

Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have.

I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.

I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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 actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

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

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

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

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

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

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 believe in praying to win.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.