Praying Quotes

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

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

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

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

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.

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

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

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

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

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

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

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

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

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

She died praying that she might die.

No praying, it spoils business.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

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