I Pray Quotes - Page 7

• And if I die before I wake
  I pray the lord my soul to take
  But please don't cry
  Just know that I have made these songs for you.

  Kid Cudi

  Song, Rap, Soul

  Song: The Prayer, 2008

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• I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Faith, Hard Work, Praying

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• My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her.

  Columba Bush

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Sports, Nfl, Victory

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• When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

  Robert Bridges

  Love, Firsts, Sentimental

  Robert Bridges (1964). “The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges”, p.208, Library of Alexandria

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• I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Law, Long

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• When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

  James L. Kraft

  Mind, Answers, Assuming

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• Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had,
  I pray so much about it, need some knee pads.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rap, Needs, Knees

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• To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

  Chica Umino

  Moon, Night, Hands

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• Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Prayer, Praying, Trouble

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• We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

  Barack Obama

  People, Grace, Helping

  "President Obama Says: 'We achieve salvation through the grace of God'". blogs.cbn.com. September 28, 2010.

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• For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Flower, Blessing, Law

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• No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in praying for our President, all of our elected leaders, and even for this unjust judge and all those who rule from the bench - that God would guide them and give them wisdom.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Prayer, Giving

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• I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Memories, Lying

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.117, New York Review of Books

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• As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, Giving, Perfect

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• I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

  Rod Taylor

  Trying, Actors, Praying

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• I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah.

  Chris Rock

  Praying, Knows

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• I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Real, Perfect, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Mean, Office

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

  Aeschylus

  Art, Pain, Physicians

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.340

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• Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

  James MacDonald

  Knowing, Mind, Variation

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• I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.

  George W. Bush

  Eye, Sea, Decision

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.

  Denzel Washington

  Morning, Fall, Night

  "Actor Denzel Washington Delivers Incredibly Passionate Speech About Faith, Hard Work and Life’s True Riches" by Billy Hallowell, www.theblaze.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

  Mitt Romney

  Prayer, Might, Praying

  "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2012.

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