Praying Quotes · Page 47

Pray for the people of West Africa. You cannot be apathetic towards people for whom you are earnestly praying.

— Kent Brantly

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will…

— LeCrae

Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

— Godfrey Reggio

Give thanks to God for what you are now, and keep praying and fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

— David Kreger

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

— Anonymous

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person…

— Philip Yancey

Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their…

— Wendell Berry

There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for…

— Dean L. Larsen

Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference…

— David Jeremiah

Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When…

— Emily Dickinson

To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise…

— Ole Hallesby

It's entirely different waking up in the morning and praying. I read aloud six or seven different devotional books, one of which…

— Pat Summerall

I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my…

— Clara Blandick

Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and…

— Charles Spurgeon

Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to…

— Marion D. Hanks

Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan…

— Malcolm X

“Many of us pray often, but we do not get the nourishment from our praying. This should not be so. We are…

— Witness Lee

Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and…

— Anonymous

I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal…

— Riane Eisler

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order…

— Paul Auster

“Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Yoko Ono

I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

— Kevin Sorbo

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

— Yann Martel

You should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have…

— Michael Oher

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it…

— Criss Jami

I'm officially in love with Harry Styles yet there's nothing can I do but praying.

— SN's

Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

— Emily Dickinson

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

— Hesiod

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his…

— Anonymous

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to…

— Howard Zinn

Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

— Jay-Z

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

— Mark Hart

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

— William Shakespeare

I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.

— Mike Evans