Praying Quotations

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

I learn the lines and pray to God.

I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

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 know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

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

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.

We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

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 go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass.

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was.

I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control...My hotel check-in name used to be Mr BL Zebub.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

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

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I dont think being gay is a sin. Period.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

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.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back!

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

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.

The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true.

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I've studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that everyone's praying to the same God.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

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.'

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

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

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

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

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.