Praying Quotes
2627 quotes by 1409 authors
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What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning…
— Thomas Merton
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We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
— William Carey
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People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ…
— George Whitefield
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It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we…
— Jonathan Goforth
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If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply…
— Mark Dever
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When I see guys huddling up after the game, to pray, that’s what scares me about the game. I’m a Baptist, but I’m also a…
— Deacon Jones
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Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?
— Alice Liddell
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I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.
— Chanel Iman
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The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also…
— N. T. Wright
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,…
— N. T. Wright
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When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own…
— N. T. Wright
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We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into…
— N. T. Wright
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Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made…
— Bill Hybels
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
— Bill Hybels
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The key to prayer is simply praying.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I've discovered that sometimes God wants us to live inside of the questions. Sometimes he wants us to linger in the waiting, hoping, praying. In…
— Pete Wilson
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Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.
— Marsilio Ficino
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent…
— Edward Kennedy
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