Praying Quotes
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How do you remain - steadfast and immovable during a trial of faith? You immerse yourself in the very thing that helped your core of faith: you exercise faith in Christ, you pray, you ponder the scriptures, you repent, you keep the commandments, and you serve others.
Neil L. Andersen
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If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
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For all the hopeful dreamers morons out there... Stop praying for God to make things happen for you. Just make them happen.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
C. S. Lewis
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Where I'm from, life's a gamble, grab the dice/'Fore I leave, pray to God, then I grab my Nikes
Santiago Leyva
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The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.
David Jeremiah
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One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.
Brook Benton
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
Rita Mae Brown
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In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas
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The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
Martin Luther
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I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .
William Shakespeare
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We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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As a young Christian, I was praying fervently one day for guidance on a particular issue when I felt the Spirit gently interrupt. I was shocked to think I heard him suggest that I was too busy seeking his will. How could that be? Then I heard the rest of his suggestion. “Don’t seek my will in this matter. Seek me—and then you will know my will.” Seeking God’s will is important, but in this case my focus was wrong.
Craig S. Keener
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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
J. C. Macaulay
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
Lou Holtz
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
William Tyndale
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None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying.
Edward McKendree Bounds