Praying Quotes

• I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Great
  • God
  • Athlete

• 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
  • Men
  • Prayer
  • Accepting

• My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Lies
  • Healing
  • Harmed

• Y’all pray for VA they just shut down the whole city till June. Thank God my family is straight. But praying for the state as a whole .

  

  Aaron Cole
  • Family
  • State
  • Praying

• I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'

  

  Anna Friel
  • Audience
  • Hell
  • Fake

• There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, "My God, my God!"

  

  William Mountford
  • Feelings
  • Spirit
  • Burden

• 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
  • Mean
  • Use
  • Obtaining

• Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • God
  • Power
  • Peace

• Perfection does not come in this life, but we exercise faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and keep our covenants. President Monson has promised, "Your testimony, when constantly nourished, will keep you safe." We push our spiritual roots deep, feasting daily on the words of Christ in the scriptures. We trust in the words of living prophets, placed before us to show us the way. We pray and pray and listen to the quiet voice of the Holy Ghost that leads us along and speaks peace to our soul. Whatever challenges arise, we never, never leave Him.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Soul
  • Jesus
  • Spiritual

• It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

  

  Owen Wister
  • People
  • Men
  • Hated

• Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Energy
  • Courage
  • Praying

• Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Christmas
  • Glasses
  • Dear

• I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

  

  George Washington
  • America
  • Hours
  • Causes

• I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

  

  Van Jones
  • Faith
  • Son
  • Saint

• You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • inspirational
  • Darkness
  • Motivational

• I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Desire

• Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Time
  • Balls

• I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Thanksgiving

• Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Praying

• I got my own way of praying.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Praying
  • Own Way

• If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Country
  • Wish

• The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Praying
  • Stages
  • Crowned

• I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

  

  John Hancock
  • Sacred
  • Dear
  • Honorable

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