Pray Quotations

When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pretty that little light skin girl was, or I would hear I was pretty to be dark skin. It wasn't until I was 13 that I really learned to appreciate my skin color and know that I was beautiful.

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

I pray that there will be more roles for bigger girls. I pray that the role of the love interest, the beautiful, sexy girl, will be played by a plus-size woman.

I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.

People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance what disaster to those you love would be too much to bear faithfully, and like everyone's, my faith is weakly conditional in some ways. I hope, I pray not to lose it. My fingers are crossed. Also my heart.

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.

I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

We need to pray for our brethren around the world.

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

There's days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don't. You just pray that doesn't happen the night of the fight.

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, 'I'll go out there and have fun,' but it's very nerve-wracking for me. I don't think that will ever change.

I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.

I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious - she's just English.

God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Christians are commanded to pray in the name of Jesus. It is not a practice reserved just for personal prayers, or prayers rendered in church.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

We've always been concerned about all four of our peacemakers, our brothers ... and we pray for them. We still have a lot of hope for their safe release and return.

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.

We grieve for Amadou Diallo and the four officers involved and pray they get a fair trial,

We're doing everything in our power to be a good neighbor, ... Our office has been flooded by calls today from people asking what they can do. The best things they can do now is lend a helping hand to those who are in our state to escape the storm, making a donation to the Red Cross disaster relief fund and pray for those who are still trapped.

With my foul situation I knew it was going to be a risk. I wanted to keep a hand in her face and pray the referee would not call a foul.

We feel bad for Andray but the positive thing is that he is healthy and that his career isn't over before it took off. It's sad that something like this happened to him during his rookie season, but he will be all right. We will continue to pray for him, hope for a speedy recovery and hold down the fort until he gets back.

We feel bad for Andray, ... But the positive thing is that he is healthy and that his career isn't over before it took off. It's sad that something like this happened to him during his rookie season, but he will be all right. We will continue to pray for him, hope for a speedy recovery and hold down the fort until he gets back.

We were at the point where all of us could have lost control of the situation, and the bloodshed reached an unbelievable proportion. ... we pray for a day without funerals.

Therefore must we pray to God, and believe that He has granted the favour we have been praying for, even when in appearance it seems the reverse.

We are not aware of any contact made with those who are holding our four team members. We continue to pray that the four are released soon and brought home to their families.

We decided to pray for something we could do to make their life easier,

We're at a point now that we've got to hope and pray for somebody else. You never want to be in that situation, but hopefully everything works out.

We're a spiritual couple and we pray a lot, but we didn't know how to pray for that because it would mean that someone's child would have to pass for our child to survive.

We have probably made a pretty good case, but we just have to pray that there aren't a lot of upsets in tournaments the next couple of days.

The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the other families.

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray

The prime minister continues to demonize us. We will continue to pray and to resist, but we will do all of these things without violence. The real violence is destroying homes and throwing out the residents.

When the storm passes, the federal government has got assets and resources that we'll be deploying to help you. In the meantime, America will pray - pray for the health and safety of all our citizens.

Life is like Parachuting, as we fall through the air, we pray to god the chute opens.

Like all Americans regardless of party, I hope and pray that he will be a great chief justice. Time will tell,

Let us pray to God that each one, listening to his own conscience, has the courage to perform responsible and concrete gestures which will allow all to walk the road of peace together, avoiding anything that could lead back to hatred and violence,

Let us pray that the Holy Spirit illuminates, inspires and guides the work of the synod and pushes us to charity, agreement and the service of the truth.

Let us pray that Allah grants resilience to those who have lost homes and families. It is a test from Almighty. Let us all beg him not to put us through it again.

Let's pray to God the figure will grow.

Let's pray for Jim Dolan. Let's pray for our organization.

Lord, we pray that you use Christian's life in a very powerful and brave way like you did his father, David,

Many of us feel called. We hear about something like a tornado happening, and we want to help people. A lot of the time, people have spiritual needs after a time like this. After each job, we like to ask the owners of the house to pray with us. A lot of people tell us the prayer does them more good than anything else.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

She stated that she wanted a pastor to pray with her so she could thank God for saving her life, ... She's 8 years old. Isn't that the most beautiful thing you've ever heard?

She said it was not our fault. We got a chance to express our sorrow. ... We wanted her to know just how sorry we were. And we shared with her how we pray ... for them every day to help them get through this situation.

She's letting him pray for her problems but not for her,

She?s just hoping, being optimistic I guess. I talked to her (Monday) night. I just told her I?d pray for her. If she broke it, the chances of her coming back and actually being productive are slim. It?s just terrible.

She has a big heart and she's so pure. We always pray together and when I'm at the free-throw line, Natalie will look at me and give me a little sign.

One of our objectives under our mission of encouraging millions of Americans to pray for the President is to enhance the prayer experience of the individual member or visitor. We remind them to pray every day.

One doctor said to me, 'The more people pray for you, the more energy is put out somewhere,' ... And he said, 'I'm a doctor telling you this: It works.'

Monday night is going to be difficult for us. We had our opportunities tonight, but we shot blanks. We went down to our last opportunity and now all we can do is sit back and pray for one more chance to play this season.

My heart reaches out to them. We continue to pray for them.

Maybe for some guys it would take a month, hopefully my body is different and heals quick. I'll have to pray a lot and hope for miracles. If the pain lets me play a little bit, I'll be on the ice the first chance I have.

No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Now we've got to pray and hope somebody gives us a wildcard.

New Hanover is a good team. I hope and pray that we give the same effort (for other games) like we did tonight.

No, they aren't. My mom and dad are the same way I am because they taught me. They told me that it is something that you have to pray about because you don't know what place is for you. Any other questions that come out about free-agent stuff, we are going to have to leave alone because this is more so about the team right now, and that is the focus.

My understanding of God does not permit me to accept that every bad or good thing that occurs is a reward or punishment. There are times when bad things happen to good people, ... We need consolation, not anger; love, not hate. The God I serve and pray to daily has charged me not to blame but to help.

I was so sorry to hear about the setting sun of that great American John H. Johnson. He was an icon to me. He was a leader who developed communications between all categories of Black people. I knew him well and admired him deeply, and I will pray for his soul.

If we had a decent kicker, I would go for a field goal. But we don't really have a capable field goal kicker. We pray on an extra point. We're put in a position where we have to go for things. A field goal here and there would make a big difference. We just don't have the ability to do it.

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'

I have great hopes for him and pray to God that he will finish what his father was unable to finish. Frankly, I hope that my son gets killed and becomes a martyr for the sake of God almighty.