Praying Quotations | Page 2

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

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

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

For me, getting on a knee and praying is a very special deal for me. A very special moment. For me, it was honoring that and not letting people go out there and make a mockery of it and do a lot of different things and just kind of keeping it safe.

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

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Every day I pray about all I do.

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory.

We are praying for them and their family.

We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work.

We've all been waiting and praying for him to be with us. I don't even think about his personal story. I don't focus on that. He made his peace.

When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't have to face Meade. We didn't play well against them during the season and we knew they would be a tough team to face early in the tournament.

We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

We're just praying that they've had the opportunity to put their training to use.

We're just praying for him and hoping for the best.

We're hoping and praying that this will motivate someone to come forward.

We're hoping and praying that money will be available, ... Our concern is that everyone has been kind to the hurricane victims but we need to keep some money locally.

I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.

You cannot pray them out of hell.

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

The key to prayer is simply praying.

The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

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

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

We are all saddened by the loss of Martin... and we are praying for the three children.

We are all keeping our fingers crossed and praying and are very elated by every small, however minute, sign of progress. But I think there is still a very long way to go... And hopefully Sharon will survive and come back.

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.

To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

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

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

When you get to the place where you would worry, Stop and pray.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

He who would pray, must obey.

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.

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

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.

If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

We are hoping and praying that her health is still strong, that she can still take this ordeal which, unfortunately, she needs to go through.

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

When I'm praying for perseverance and patience, I'm praying for you too, ... Your life -- all our lives -- are going to be different.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

If you're going to hope for a change, you'd better start to pray for a change. If you're just hoping, you ain't going anywhere.

If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.