Praying Quotes

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. — Seneca the Younger
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its… — Aeschylus
Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. — William Ernest Henley
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. — Paul Cezanne
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Writing is the only way I know how to pray. — Helena Maria Viramontes
I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems. — Loretta Lynn
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely… — Thomas Jefferson
It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,… — Thomas Jefferson
He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard. — Benjamin Franklin
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look… — Alexander Hamilton
I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I pray all the… — Katy Perry
Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind... — Lana Del Rey
To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better… — Fela Kuti
We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come… — Jimmy Carter
In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to… — Debbie Allen
Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself. — Tariq Ramadan
Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by… — Brigitte Gabriel
His masterâ€™s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When… — Malcolm X

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