Pray Quotes

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

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

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

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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.'

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

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.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

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

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 like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

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

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 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.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

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!

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.