Pray Quotes

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

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

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

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

Every day I pray about all I do.

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

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

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

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

Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!

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

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.

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

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.