Praying Quotes

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.

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

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

The Indian race are waiting and praying.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

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.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

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

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

I don't believe in praying to win.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed.

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