Praying Quotes

• Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Reason
  • Anxiety
  • Prosperity

• If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

  

  Dan Barker
  • Fear
  • Prayer
  • Atheism

• St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Spiritual
  • Childhood
  • Prayer

• If you're having a difficult time making the best decision then consider fasting. Fasting is simply taking something you regularly do and replacing it with praying and seeking God. For example instead of eating a meal you can take that time to seek God and allow Him to speak to you about the decision.

  

  Dan Black
  • Decision
  • Speak
  • Difficult

• In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Different
  • Cat
  • Advantage

• The law never tells you to pray.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Law
  • Praying

• Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you

  

  Christine Caine
  • Prayer
  • Heal
  • Sinner

• He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

  

  William Law
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Religion

• Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Share

• This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Running
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • World
  • Reality
  • Language

• Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

  

  David C. Coates
  • People
  • Peace
  • Dying

• 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.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • People
  • Song
  • Church

• I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Prayer
  • Blessing
  • Neighbor

• Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • God
  • Feelings
  • Praying

• What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Church

• I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love
  • Jesus
  • Slavery

• You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Believe
  • Laughing
  • Praying

• A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Above all, let us pray for our children.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Children
  • Praying

• I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Morning

• Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Perfect
  • Desire

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