Pray Quotes
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We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
Walter Brueggemann
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“Remain in Me." It is the Word of God who gives this order, expresses this wish. Remain in Me, not for a few moments, a few hours which must pass away, but "remain . . ." permanently, habitually, Remain in Me, pray in Me, adore in Me, love in Me, suffer in Me, work and act in Me.
Elizabeth of the Trinity
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
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The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.
Brennan Manning
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
Victor Hugo
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It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
Martin Luther
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I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
Harvey Fierstein
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I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.
Etty Hillesum
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Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
Edward Joseph Young
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I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.
Martin Luther
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I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.
Jimmy Carter
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Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.
Brigham Young
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You cannot pray them out of hell.
Bill Murray
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All of us are busy. Life isn't slowing down, it's speeding up, and our Daytimers reflect the fact. Yet that is precisely why we need to take time to pray.
Ed Stetzer
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
Benjamin Carson
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Lord of the world, You are merciful; why have You not pitied Your children?" God answered him: "Foolish shepherd! Now you implore My clemency. Had you done so when I announced to you the Flood, it would not have come to pass. You knew that you would be rescued, and therefore did not care for others; now you pray.
Noah
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When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.
Eric Ludy
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I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.
Martin Luther
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I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking because I know it does have an effect. I believe there are some great things that I've taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to think I try to apply them to my life.
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present...
Jane Austen
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I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.
George Weah
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If you're going to hope for a change, you'd better start to pray for a change. If you're just hoping, you ain't going anywhere.
Bobby Labonte