Praying Quotations | Page 7

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

No one can pray and worry at the same time.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

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.

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

When you sing, you pray twice.

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

The trip that we're taking . . . we're not holy rollers or anything. I'm not on a mission. I just feel like we have unfinished business to help out the people down here who helped us, whether they was there helping or just here praying for us.

All I can tell him is that people are praying for him and that's the biggest thing that got me through.

The hugest weight has been lifted off my shoulders. All the prayers I've been praying have been answered. She's safe and she'll be back soon. I think we'll all be fighting to see who hugs her first. I don't think I'll let her go for a couple of hours.

I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

The high point is praying with the family and giving them the keys. It's pretty emotional.

The hearts and minds of New York's transit workers are with Matthew and the entire Long family; we are praying for his recovery.

The goal is to get him back into school full time, but I don't know how long that will take and neither do his doctors. I'm basically praying for another miracle.

The concern is that the maximum amount a household can receive has not changed to match the rising cost of home heating fuel. I suppose right now we're doing a lot of praying that that it's not going to be as hard a winter as it could be.

Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it.

...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.

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.

God gave us family so that when we have a hard time praying for ourselves, we have others who will pray for us.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

Lightening falls, all you can do is- pray God that it doesn't fall on you.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

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.

My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

Our hearts are enfeebled by PROSPERITY so that we cannot make an effort to pray.

If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

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.

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying....

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.

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

I can pray better when I'm comfortable,

Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame wont take my life.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.” “Was?” she asked. “I don't have this flaw any longer?” “No, you don't.” “Pray tell,” she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?” He grinned. “You used to be English.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

The law never tells you to pray.

I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

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

The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.

The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.

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.

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

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.

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.)

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.