Best 1001 quotes in «praying quotes» category

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

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.)

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

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!

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.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.

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 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 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 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 don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.

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.

We know that God is in control and we all have ups and downs and fears and uncertainty sometimes. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

We must pray to God everyday to show we don't forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain unfulfilled we must show our confidence in Him, for He knows best.

...we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.

We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.

We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

What gods do you pray to?

We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.