Praying Quotes

#1. I am like a praying mantis, after I have sex with a guy I will rip their heads off. #Quote by JWoww

#2. I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results. #Quote by Martha Reeves

#3. O Lord I cannot bear the thought of Philip lying still in such a place as this and when that thought arises must hum some scrap of tune energetically while praying No no no take that cup away Lord let me go first before any of them I love (before Philip Mary Jack Jr before dear Lydia) only that's no good either since when they reach their end I will not be there to help them? #Quote by George Saunders

#4. The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. #Quote by Orson Welles

#5. A life of praying means death to every identity that does not come from God. #Quote by Brennan Manning

#6. At the bottom in the gut of jazz if you listen closely you can hear - no matter how complexly, obliquely, mysteriously stylized - somebody talking, crying, growling, singing, farting, praying, stomping, voicing in all those modes through which our bodies communicate some tale about how it feels to be here on earth or leaving, or about the sweet pain of hanging on between the coming and going. #Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

#7. Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop. #Quote by Marianne Williamson

#8. Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time. #Quote by Barbara Walters

#9. the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to #Quote by Albert C. Outler

#10. Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by. #Quote by Preston Sturges

#11. Father, I know you're going to do some incredible things in your world today. Please give me the privilege of getting in on some of what you're doing." In other words, church leaders should stop praying, "Lord, bless what I'm doing" and start praying, "Lord, help me to do what you are blessing. #Quote by Rick Warren

#12. The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered. #Quote by Dwight L. Moody

#13. You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. #Quote by Yoko Ono

#14. May God give you the courage to live a daring life. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life. #Quote by Leonard Ravenhill

#16. It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us, and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing. #Quote by George Muller

#17. One of the first shrinks I went to after Cass died told me that the brain has a hardwired need to find correlations, to make sense of nonsensical data by making connections between unrelated things. Humans have evolved a universal tendency to seek patterns in random information, hence the existence of fortune-tellers and dream interpreters and people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast. But the cold, hard truth is that there are no connections between anything. Life - all of existence - is totally random. Your lucky lottery numbers aren't really lucky, because there's no such thing as luck. The black cat that crosses your path isn't a bad omen, it's just a cat out for a walk. An eclipse doesn't mean that the gods are angry, just as a bus narrowly missing you as you cross the street doesn't mean there's a guardian angel looking out for you. There are no gods. There are no angels. Superstitions aren't real, and no amount of wishing, praying, or rationalizing can change the fact that life is just one long sequence of random events that ultimately have no meaning. I really hated that shrink. #Quote by J.T. Geissinger

#18. On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.' #Quote by Thomas More

#19. I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that. #Quote by Charles M. Schulz

#20. In such times as we are in, whether the threats be global or local or in individual lives, I too pray for the children. Some days it seems that a sea of temptation and transgression inundates them, simply washes over them before they can successfully withstand it, before they should have to face it. And often at least some of the forces at work seem beyond our personal control. Well, some of them may be beyond our control, but I testify with faith in the living God that they are not beyond His. #Quote by Jeffrey R. Holland

#21. I believe in children praying
well, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more self-reliant. I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles. #Quote by Joseph Conrad

#22. Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly - ever so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening so carefully or we will never recognize them. Most answers from the Lord are felt in our heart as a warm comfortable expression, or they may come as thoughts to our mind. They come to those who are prepared and who are patient. #Quote by H. Burke Peterson

#23. For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end. #Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

#24. All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes. #Quote by Kobayashi Issa

#25. Why are men so noisy during the liturgies while Christ's prayer was silent? The words of the Son of God come from the heart, and the heart is silent. Why do we not know how to speak with a silent heart? The heart of Jesus does not speak. It radiates with love because its language comes from the divine depths. #Quote by Robert Sarah

#26. Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer. #Quote by Matthew Henry

#27. Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes. #Quote by A. J. Jacobs

#28. Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil. When one does not profess Jesus Christ, one professes the worldliness of the devil. #Quote by Pope Francis

#29. Kate heard the bravado in her friend's voice and saw it in her eyes. "I prayed for you." "You did?" Tully asked. "Wow. Thanks." Kate didn't know what to say to that. To her, praying was like brushing your teeth before bed, just something you did. Tully #Quote by Kristin Hannah

#30. Live life in the power of the Holy Spirit. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing. #Quote by Joyce Meyer

#32. Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you. #Quote by Cyprian

#33. In the forest you pray involuntarily, and it's also the only place in the world where God is near; God seems to have created forests so we can pray in them as if in sacred temples; one person prays in one way, another in another, but everyone prays. When you lie beneath a fir tree reading a book, you are praying, if praying is the same as being lost in thought. Let God be where He will, in the forest you can sense Him, and you offer up your little bit of belief with silent rapture. #Quote by Robert Walser

#34. common problem people have is discerning when a dream or vision is to be taken symbolically (as a parable) and when it is to be taken literally. As #Quote by Praying Medic

#35. Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church. #Quote by Andy Stanley

#36. Praying
It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don't try
to make them elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak. #Quote by Mary Oliver

#37. Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. #Quote by Ernest Holmes

#38. You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for. #Quote by Will Rogers

#39. Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants. #Quote by Shannon L. Alder

#40. THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! Sometimes, smug times When I'm talking about God When I'm praying about God When I'm working for God, Sometimes, smug times When I'm very busy in the church about the church around the church I wonder if God isn't sighing, or whispering, or saying, or hollering, THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! #Quote by John Savage

#41. I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation. #Quote by Angie Harmon

#42. I'd been deeply affected by my contact with the miners, not only because of their kindness, but because they'd taken this potentially hellish place and made it, if not heaven, at least human; through their simple rituals of eating, drinking tea, smoking tobacco, praying, playing, and talking, they'd created civilization in one of the most impossible places to imagine it. And what seemed like a miracle to me was, to them, just another day at work! #Quote by Michael Benanav

#43. To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world. #Quote by Wayne Muller

#44. 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. #Quote by Samuel Richardson

#45. I wanted to cover as much distance as possible to be away from where we were, but there was a storm which restricted me. And now, I have been praying for more snow for the last two days, but it's just melting away to plain water. #Quote by Sapan Saxena

#46. May the goodness of God's face forever shine on our path. #Quote by Laiah Gifty Akita

#47. Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. #Quote by Dag Hammarskjold

#48. 35 In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there. 36Simon and his companions searched for Him; 37they found Him, and *said to Him, Everyone is looking for You. #Quote by Anonymous

#49. I'm not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does. Maybe that's an even worse mistake than praying might be. #Quote by Frederick Buechner

#50. It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests. #Quote by Gautama Buddha

#51. The damn hawker nearly caught the bumper." More amazed than angry now, Eve shook her head. "A guy in air boots nearly outran a cop ride. What's the world coming to, Peabody?" Eyes stubbornly shut, Peabody didn't move a muscle. "I'm sorry, sir, you're interrupting my praying. #Quote by J.D. Robb

#52. When you pray, pray so that you may know Him. When you seek to simplify, do it as a means of knowing Him more. When you surrender, or behave with humility or sacrifice, do it with the sole purpose in mind to know Him. #Quote by Charles R. Swindoll

#53. I cannot but feel I have had a call from God to devote myself to help save souls in their last hour ...
I have been drawn so strongly to pray for the dying and I believe it to be a work appointed for me, perpetual prayer for the dying. #Quote by Mary Potter

#54. Nowadays when we bow our heads before meals, we no longer say grace - we receive it. #Quote by Jared Brock

#55. Turning on the radio and just sitting there was my version of praying. #Quote by Benjamin Alire Saenz

#56. May we ever watch over one another, assisting in times of need. Let us not be critical and judgmental, but let us be tolerant, ever emulating the Savior's example of loving-kindness. In that vein, may we willingly serve one another. May we pray for the inspiration to know of the needs of those around us, and then may we go forward and provide assistance. #Quote by Thomas S. Monson

#57. We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative. #Quote by Shane Claiborne

#58. O Jesus, my Divine Saviour, I offer You my mind and heart. Direct their movements while I pray, so that I may offer my prayer in union with Your Immaculate Mother. #Quote by Rose Philippine Duchesne

#59. Isn't that strange? To be able to feel so much tenderness for a person, and I did, and powerful attraction, sometimes, and yet feel no love. It seems cruel, almost monstrous. I mean I can love a bug. I have watched a spider weaving her web in the evening, in the young alder branches along the river, and I have loved her. Truly. Or a small moth trying to beat her way off the water of a dark pool, her soaked wings stuck to the surface as if by glue. And gently slid a leaf beneath her and lifted her to the ground, praying that her wings would dry without damage. I've done that. And yet I could not love my wife. #Quote by Peter Heller

#60. Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. #Quote by George Washington

#61. By praying really hard, you can make it so that your worst enemy feels dumb. #Quote by C.S. Lewis

#62. Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses. #Quote by Dannie Abse

#63. My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him. #Quote by Mother Teresa

#64. To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired. #Quote by Neville Goddard

#65. I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside. #Quote by Karen Salmansohn

#66. This (the tendency to revive the old, and just stay with the old) is true not just of Habad but of Hassidim in generally, whether they are in Williamsburg or Mea She'arim. They are pouring all their energies into reliving an anachronism, so much so that there is no energy left over to live in the present. This attempt at living out an anachronism prevents them, not only from interchanging with the world around them, but even from praying properly, or studying, let alone from perceiving the presence of their children or their wives." (SS: understanding what they need in the presence time and generation).
"I'm not anti-tradition. On the contrary, I'll use anything that will help me get off. I've got a great deal invested in the materials of civilization, like language and vocabulary - booba, zeida, cholent, tallis - they're deeply embedded in the core of my brain, attached to my thalamus, not to the cortex. It would be foolish to deny that they're not part of my make-up. But, if someone says that I must believe in the God who was active at the time of Moses, or Yohannan ben Zakai, or the Baal Shem Tov, my answer is no. #Quote by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#67. The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. #Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds

#68. Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj. #Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

#69. A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of
prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the
congregational setting. #Quote by Richard Burr

#70. One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray. #Quote by R.C. Sproul

#71. The effective prayer of faith comes from a life given up to the will and the love of God. Not as a result of what I try to be when praying, but because of what I am when I'm not praying, is my prayer answered by God. All #Quote by Andrew Murray

#72. 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. #Quote by Smith Wigglesworth

#73. God's power supersedes any power. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father. #Quote by Monica Johnson

#75. A man can preach no better than he prays. #Quote by Charles Stanley

#76. Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don't think that you are making or doing something special - and then you will be special. #Quote by Osho

#77. It is through our communion with the Holy Spirit that we are able to apprehend the things that God has given us, through our union with Jesus Christ. If you haven't taken the time to invite Him in, I advise you to do so now . Begin by seeking God specifically concerning marriage. Ask Him to prepare and position you, so that when it is time, you will be found in the right place, doing the work of God. Believe in His willingness to guide you. Trust in His wisdom and power in bringing His promises to pass. Ask Him to 'speak on' concerning your mate and your future. You may be surprised at how eager He is to answer. #Quote by L.E. Green

#78. 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. #Quote by Nicola Barker

#79. Give God a break: work for what you are praying for. #Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#80. The deadline is at midnight in America; dawn, 5 A.M., in England, and 8:00 A.M., early morning, in Iraq. The Americans tie yellow ribbons around oak trees, hoping for their sons' safe return home. The Iraqis tie green ribbons around the Shrine of the Imam al-Hussain, praying for God's protection. In the coldest month, the coldest war of the modern age is declared. #Quote by Betool Khedairi

#81. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth." #Quote by David C. Coates

#82. No prayer!-No faith!-No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!-Little faith!-Little Christ in the heart. Increasing prayer!-Increasing faith!-Increasing Christ in the heart!. Much prayer!-Much faith!-Much Christ in the heart! Praying always!-Faith always!-Christ always! #Quote by Alexander Whyte

#83. You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need. #Quote by Timothy Keller

#84. Praying helps me see perspectives otherwise beyond me. #Quote by Lysa TerKeurst

#85. I believe firmly, that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking, and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit, and ambition and self-seeking, and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us. There must be an emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside #Quote by D.L. Moody

#86. Red Rover, Red Rover, send Ardor right over," Eliza said. They laughed. The asteroid was a little bigger now, brighter, and still they went on laughing. Laughing in the face of what they couldn't predict or change or control. Would it be fire and brimstone? Would it be Armageddon? Or would it be a second chance? Eliza held tight to her friends, laughing, and a pair of hands land soft as feathers on her shoulders, like the hands of a ghost, laughing and laughing as Ardor swept along its fated course, laughing and through that laughter, praying. Praying for forgiveness. Praying for grace. Praying for mercy.
















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#87. To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray. #Quote by Charles Wesley

#88. I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak. #Quote by Peace Pilgrim

#89. Just as everyone in a tribe praying to a volcano god would reinforce the idea that there is a volcano god, so begging politicians for favors reinforces the idea that there is a rightful ruling class, that their commands are "law," and that obedience to such "laws" is a moral imperative. #Quote by Larken Rose

#90. All nations were different. The Russians were unparalleled in their suffering, the English in their reserve, the Americans in their love of life, the Italians in their love of Christ, and the French in their hope of love. So when they made the dress for Tatiana, they made it full of promise. They made it as if to tell her, put it on, chérie, and in this dress you, too, shall be loved as we have loved; put it on and love shall be yours. And so Tatiana never despaired in her white dress with red roses. Had the Americans made it, she would have been happy. Had the Italians made it, she would have started praying, had the British made it, she would have squared her shoulders, but because the French had made it, she never lost hope. #Quote by Paullina Simons

#91. 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. #Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds

#92. I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking. #Quote by Karen White

#93. I remember when I was growing up and there would be sick people in the church. I was always so sensitive to them sitting in the pews alone, and I would not pass by without saying hello. But even at those tender ages of 5 through 14, I felt like they carried the plague, and after seeing them I would turn around praying really hard to never experience sickness like that, ever. I'd pray that I wouldn't make God angry enough to curse me like that with really awful things, but I didn't think about grace. I did not understand that it does not work that way, that God's grace is so much bigger than our sin because of Jesus - but I do get it now. We go through what we do so that we can fulfill God's glory in our lives. #Quote by Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

#94. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ... #Quote by Abraham Lincoln

#95. One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. #Quote by Bob Schaffer

#96. What do you have in here?" [the Archbishop] asked, pointing to one of the little bottles. "Quinine, Vladika," answered the father confused. "Preparation against fever… How often must one take it per day and for how many days?" "Three, four times a day, depending on the gravity of the illness. One should take it until the fever breaks down." "Therefore, in order to get rid of such a disease that, in fact, is a just trifle, one has to take this medicine three or four times a day and pay the doctor a few visits. Do the same with the Great Medicine that our Lord gave us. The Apostles and the first Christians would commune daily, spending their time in love and continuous praying. And we, the haters, the flatterers, always ready to trip someone, come to our Heavenly Doctor once a year and want immediate cure from all diseases, distresses and sufferings inherited from our ancestors; we want nature, which deteriorated over thousands of years, to instantly revive and we want ourselves to become new people. [Chapter IX] #Quote by Hieromonk Tihon

#97. [God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan. #Quote by Andy Stanley

#98. My hair smells like the morning dew on a holy sunset and praying elephants. #Quote by Jay McLean

#99. We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot. #Quote by Cesar Chavez

#100. If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both. #Quote by Francis Quarles

#101. When Rhage's beast came out, everyone, the brothers included, looked for shelter and took up praying. #Quote by J.R. Ward

#102. Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always. #Quote by Douglas MacArthur

#103. Think about Praying Mantis. The deadliest ninja predator. Why isn't his animus a lion or a polar bear - two of the most successful killing machines in the animal kingdom? The answer is that these animals would not be right for him. Think how a praying mantis is invisible on a leaf, how they are carnivores who will devour their own species. The female will even eat her own partner once they've mated and, as hatchlings, their first meal is often one of their own siblings. These are the things that matter to Praying Mantis - and if you study his attributes, they are elements that will help you defeat him. #Quote by Jane Prowse

#104. Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth. #Quote by Pope Francis

#105. We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response. #Quote by Thomas S. Monson

#106. When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot. #Quote by Douglas Booth

#107. Unfortunately, we may not always fully enter into the mysteries of Christ, because we don't persevere in praying the Rosary. We forget that, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, prayer can be a real battle (135). Sometimes the attacks in this battle are dryness in praying the Rosary. Well we should keep praying it. Sometimes as we get ready to pray the Rosary, we suddenly feel an aversion, fatigue comes over us, and our minds think of a million other things that have to be done. We should keep praying it. #Quote by Michael Gaitley

#108. Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct. #Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds

#109. Those who served both the Almighty and secular lords did their best to follow Jesus's teachings and render unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's, and unto God the things that were God's, all the while praying they'd never have to choose between the two. #Quote by Sharon Kay Penman

#110. Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.' #Quote by Marianne Williamson

#111. Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray. #Quote by Leonard Ravenhill

#112. A study of heart patients in 6 separate hospitals sought to determine whether prayers from strangers would have any effect on a person's recovery (1). After carefully following the recovery of 1,800 heart surgery patients for 30 days after the surgery, researchers found absolutely no link between prayer and recovery. However, there was a significant difference between those who were aware of the fact that they were being prayed for and those who did not know. Those who knew ended up suffering more complications, possibly due to the additional stress it caused. Being told that a high number of people are praying for your recovery might increase how severe you would perceive your illness to be and thus negatively affect your recovery. To date, there have been no reputable scientific studies showing any clear link between prayer and healing. #Quote by Armin Navabi

#113. We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our
strength. #Quote by Joan D. Chittister

#114. Nothing prayed for – it is life's strictest and least graceful rule – comes to you at the time of praying. #Quote by Stephen Fry

#115. The world is full of people who remain in relationships that they realize they have no business in. Yet, they stay, hoping and praying for change, believing that the other person will eventually appreciate them and recognize their value. #Quote by Zane

#116. The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things! #Quote by Rick Springfield

#117. We are all searching for someone, that special person, who will provide what's missing in our lives
One who can offer companionship, assistance or security. And sometimes when we can search very hard who can provide us with all three. Yes, we are all searching for someone. And if we can't find them we can only pray they find us. #Quote by Mary Alice

#118. Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God. #Quote by Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

#119. Even the mantis has stopped praying #Quote by Dean Cavanagh

#120. Praying in tongues charges your spirit like a battery charger charges a battery. #Quote by Kenneth E. Hagin

#121. I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations ... I pray three times a day. I try to have a real experience praying, not just do it. I really get deep into the idea and really try to get somewhere with it, to have an in-depth understanding of the idea. #Quote by Matisyahu

#122. The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke. #Quote by Henry David Thoreau

#123. Have a care over my people. You have my people
do you that which I ought to do. They are my people ... See unto them
see unto them, for they are my charge ... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am. #Quote by Elizabeth I

#124. When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me." #Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

#125. And they were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#126. That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. #Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds

#127. Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God. #Quote by J.I. Packer

#128. To sing is to pray twice. #Quote by Saint Augustine

#129. It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. #Quote by Charles Spurgeon

#130. The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. 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 slothfulness in prayer. #Quote by Charles Spurgeon

#131. Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind. #Quote by Sarada Devi

#132. When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us. #Quote by Dillon Burroughs

#133. The best formula for a prayer that gives J.O.Y:
J- 1st, Pray to JESUS
O- 2nd, Pray for OTHERS
Y- 3rd, Pray for YOURSELF
Most people distort the formula by praying selfish prayers for their own personal gains. JYO is not the spelling for joy. In JOY, O comes before Y. It means you pray for OTHERS before YOURSELF. #Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

#134. Just deciding to forgive isn't enough because willpower alone won't work - we need divine strength from God. As He gives us the strength, we need to pray for our enemies and bless them. Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them. #Quote by Joyce Meyer

#135. Don't tell me I didn't love him, don't...just don't act like you know what it feels like to lose someone who left without a goodbye. Someone who you spent your days praying to make him smile and then he just leaves, he leaves without a goodbye... #Quote by Elizabeth Heller

#136. God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. #Quote by Oswald Chambers

#137. One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it is the prayer of intercession. Let us peer for a moment into the heart of Saint Paul, to see what his prayer was like. It was full of people: " ... I constantly pray with you in every one of my prayers for all of you ... because I hold you in my heart" (Phil 1:4, 7). Here we see that intercessory prayer does not divert us from true contemplation, since authentic contemplation always has a place for others. #Quote by Pope Francis

#138. Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray. #Quote by Mother Teresa

#139. God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face. #Quote by Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#140. Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting. #Quote by Jentezen Franklin

#141. Masturbating is no more sinful than praying or meditating. #Quote by Abhijit Naskar

#142. Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover,
It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in Heaven will mind it,
And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.

Though perfect the player's touch, little, if any, he sways us,
Unless we feel his heart throb through the music he plays us.

Though the poet may spend his life in skilfully rounding a measure,
Unless he writes from a full, warm heart he gives us little pleasure.

So it is not the speech which tells, but the impulse which goes with the saying;
And it is not the words of the prayer, but the yearning back of the praying.

It is not the artist's skill which into our soul comes stealing
With a joy that is almost pain, but it is the player's feeling.

And it is not the poet's song, though sweeter than sweet bells chiming,
Which thrills us through and through, but the heart which beats under the rhyming.

And therefore I say again, though I am art's own true lover,
That it is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over. #Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#143. You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need ... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy. #Quote by Melissa Etheridge

#144. In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.' #Quote by J.C. Ryle

#145. We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory. #Quote by Mark Batterson

#146. The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes. #Quote by Martin Luther

#147. God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past. #Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#148. There are times ... when we are in the midst of life-moments of confrontation with birth or death, or moments of beauty when nature or love is fully revealed, or moments of terrible loneliness-times when a holy and awesome awareness comes upon us. It may come as deep inner stillness or as a rush of overflowing emotion. It may seem to come from beyond us, without any provocation, or from within us, evoked by music or by a sleeping child. If we open our hearts at such moments, creation reveals itself to us in all it's unity and fullness. And when we return from such a moment of awareness, our hearts long to find some way to capture it in words forever, so that we can remain faithful to it's higher truth.
... When my people search for a name to give to the truth we feel at those moments, we call it God, and when we capture that understanding in timeless poetry, we call it praying. #Quote by Mary Doria Russell

#149. The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough. #Quote by Ann Kidd Taylor

#150. I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want. #Quote by Angie Harmon

#151. I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received. #Quote by Mario Balotelli

#152. Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do. #Quote by Peter Steele

#153. We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done. #Quote by Loren Cunningham

#154. The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known. #Quote by Leonard Ravenhill

#155. An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me. #Quote by Pope John XXIII

#156. The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God ... #Quote by R.A. Torrey

#157. We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer. #Quote by Francis Of Assisi

#158. A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God. #Quote by Charles Brent

#159. I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair. #Quote by Margaret Sartor

#160. I dream of a true husband - a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe. #Quote by A.A. Attanasio

#161. I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things. #Quote by Robert Glasper

#162. To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer. #Quote by W. H. Auden

#163. Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability. #Quote by Pat Schneider

#164. You realize I had half my guard out searching for you?" Eddard Stark said when they were alone. "Septa Mordane is beside herself with fear. She's in the sept praying for your safe return. Arya, you know you are never to go beyond the castle gates without my leave."
"I didn't go out the gates," she blurted. "Well, I didn't mean to. I was down in the dungeons, only they turned into this tunnel. It was all dark, and I didn't have a torch or a candle to see by, so I had to follow. I couldn't go back the way I came on account of the monsters. Father, they were talking about killing you! Not the monsters, the two men. They didn't see me, I was being still as stone and quiet as a shadow, but I heard them. They said you had a book and a bastard and if one Hand could die, why not a second? Is that the book? Jon's the bastard, I bet. #Quote by George R R Martin

#165. May we learn to intercede so whole-heartedly that Jesus Christ will be abundantly satisfied with us as intercessors. #Quote by Oswald Chambers

#166. Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. #Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

#167. By praying for our husbands and looking to the Lord rather than to our circumstances, we trust Him to carry both our husband and his burden. Then from the overflow of our hearts, we can give back to and encourage our men. #Quote by Shaunti Feldhahn

#168. As a nation we've been faced with so many tragedies since the beginning of this Millennium and I believe we have even more reason to pray. Many people don't feel capable in that area and I wanted to create music that helped them find the words that could bring peace. #Quote by Oleta Adams

#169. We are not asking everyone to do everything. We are simply asking all members to pray, knowing that if every member, young and old, will reach out to just "one" between now and Christmas, millions will feel the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. And what a wonderful gift to the Savior. #Quote by M. Russell Ballard

#170. The essence of the Christian life is not attending meetings or even praying and fasting. The essence of the Christian life is looking intently for bits of God in everything and everyone, everyday, so that you see him a little more clearly, everyday, so that he becomes a little more dear to you, everyday. The essence of the Christian life is being unwilling to close your eyes at night until, having seen a little more of him, you have become a little more like him. #Quote by Ron Brackin

#171. Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, How can I pray for you? #Quote by James MacDonald

#172. I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period. #Quote by Kristin Chenoweth

#173. Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry. #Quote by Benny Hinn

#174. So let me tell you this, when it comes to ... trying to introduce other people to Jesus. Don't get mad at them: it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're blind. Yelling louder, arguing harder, pushing firmer won't make someone who is blind see. Pray for them, speak to them, care for them. #Quote by Mark Driscoll

#175. It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences. #Quote by Martin Luther

#176. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims. #Quote by Aldous Huxley

#177. Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed. #Quote by Joyce Meyer

#178. Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels ... One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119) #Quote by Swami Satchidananda

#179. Tyson okay?" I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter" is a strange battle cry. "You let him fight?" Stop changing the subject! You realize what you are asking me to do? My palace will be destroyed. "And Olympus might be saved." Do you have any idea how long I've worked on remodeling this palace? The game room alone took six hundred years. "Dad - " Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. "I am praying. I'm talking to you, right? #Quote by Rick Riordan

#180. In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true? #Quote by Valmiki

#181. The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. #Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

#182. Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed - for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a lot of praying here as well, that God would deliver us all to prosperity and peace beyond this plot of land. #Quote by Deborah L. Parker

#183. And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides. #Quote by G.K. Chesterton

#184. Pray according to faith, not circumstances. #Quote by Woodrow M. Kroll

#185. I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is. #Quote by Sarah Palin

#186. You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it. #Quote by Isaac Newton

#187. I am praying for your eternal soul."
"Don't bother."
"Come on, don't you want to go to Heaven?"
"I wouldn't know anyone up there. And don't get too prissy with that religious bullshit, true? I don't want to spend an eternity without you, so you need to come to Dhunhd with me."
"Will they have milk duds there?"
"yes, but they'll all be melted together. And we'll be surrounded by Yankees fans, televangelists, and no booze."
"We'll think of some way to pass the time."
"We always do. #Quote by J.R. Ward

#188. Let me tell you something: Never give up. God can soften the hardest heart. If you have been praying for a loved one for twenty years, do not stop! God will save people from sin; He will deliver them from bondage to drugs or alcohol. His love can melt a heart of stone - so, again, never give up! #Quote by Surprise Sithole

#189. Kisa.." he whispered, rolling my name on his tongue and i froze, praying he would say something else.. I know you, i remember you. You're the girl i was designed to love, my God-given match, my solnyshko. But he didn't. Instead he inhealed a deep breath and said, "why do i feel like I've known you all my life?" And at that moment i knew... #Quote by Tillie Cole

#190. You will never be able to live a victorious Christian life, unless you learn during your times of praying in tongues to understand the depths of what God's Spirit is revealing to your mind. #Quote by Sunday Adelaja

#191. Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarrelling with one another about the steering --every one is of opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary. They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain's senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them. Him who is their partisan and cleverly aids them in their plot for getting the ship out of the captain's hands into their own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the name of sailor, pilot, able seaman, and abuse the other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but that the true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his art, if he intends to be really qualified for the comm #Quote by Plato

#192. Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true.
The first name shatters him.
The second makes his head spin. #Quote by Melina Marchetta

#193. The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens

#194. I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved. #Quote by C.S. Lewis

#195. The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success. #Quote by Richard Cecil

#196. I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family. #Quote by Billy Graham

#197. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray? #Quote by Henry David Thoreau

#198. I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working. #Quote by Hudson Taylor

#199. Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors - Pray for us. #Quote by Mother Teresa

#200. Praying leads to the prosperity of the soul #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita