Prayed Quotes
296 quotes by 253 authors
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He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word…
— William Faulkner
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I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her
— Leonard Cohen
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
— Alice Walker
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When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let…
— Betty Smith
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I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things…
— Charles Bukowski
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Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do."…
— Randy Alcorn
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Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many…
— Nizar Qabbani
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I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.
— Leif Enger
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I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,…
— Anne Rice
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I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own…
— Khalil Gibran
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If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.
— Rick Warren
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I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.
— Miranda July
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Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark.…
— Thomas S. Monson
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. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he…
— John C. Maxwell
Who Wrote These Prayed Quotes
253 authors contributed a total of 296 Prayed Quotes, led by these top contributors: