Praying Quotes

You work hard and you pray, and you do something where you know the energy around the project is right, but you never really know if it's going to hit and resonate with audiences.

Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.

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

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!

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

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

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year

Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.

Praying helps me see perspectives otherwise beyond me.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

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

Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't.

Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

I pray everyday. I make sure that my family is OK. I make sure my son is all right.

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

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

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

Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?

To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

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.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.

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

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.

I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.

I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

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

This is heaven. You can stop praying now.

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

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

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.