Praying Quotes

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

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't believe in praying to win.

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

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

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

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.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

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

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.