Praying To God Quotes - Page 6

• You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

  Bertolt Brecht

  God, Sky, Storm

  "The Mother". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1930.

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• Paul, Luther, Wesley —what would these chosen ones of God be without the distinguishing and controlling element of prayer? They were leaders for God because mighty in prayer. They were not leaders because of brilliancy in thought, because exhaustless in resources, because of their magnificent culture or native endowment, but leaders because by the power of prayer they could command the power of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Leader, Power Of God

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hard Times, Thinking, Want

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Mind, Inventory

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• If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Way, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!

  Andrew Ripp

  Writing, People, Healthy

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• Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Teacher, Sick, Long

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• Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Soul, Body

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• Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

  Lady Jane Grey

  Heart, Eye, Utterance

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• I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sleep, Comfort, Hearing

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• I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.

  India.Arie

  World, Praying, Stage

  Source: www.tv.com

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• Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Prayer, Wish

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.353

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• All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.

  Vikram Seth

  Prayer, Moving, Iron

  Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.117, Penguin Books India

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• The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Real, Islamic, Reflection

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I did watching my films with an audience at the beginning when we went to Sundance and we screened The Savages there. I watched it, and I was just praying to God it worked, because we weren't even finished. I was just hoping it worked, so half of it was just, "Phew."

  Tamara Jenkins

  Praying, Film, Audience

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

  Joan of Arc

  Grace, Praying, States

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• Sickle cell anemia made me a real angry kid. I was angry at God. I used to sit there and pray to God, please, take this pain away. It was nothing magical happening, there was nothing there. I felt like my prayers were not being answered. It made me real moody, I had an attitude problem growing up as a young child.

  Prodigy

  Prayer, Children, Growing Up

  Source: maximumfun.org

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• Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Able

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.15, New World Library

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• If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the last time I met him in 1997 in Afghanistan. And bin Laden said to me "From this mountain, Mr. Robert, upon which you are sitting, we beat the Russian army and helped break the Soviet Union. And I pray to God that he allows us to turn America into a shadow of itself." When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Army, Intelligent

  Source: progressive.org

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• Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass, and it translate to beef with broccoli. The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

  Bill Maher

  Tattoo, Spiritual, Character

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• It is a great good to be given over to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul, and no other thought, and she prays to God with a pure mind. When the soul is entirely given over to the will of God, then the Lord Himself begins to guide her, and the soul learns directly from God ... A proud man does not with to live according to the will of God. He likes to direct himself, and does not understand that man does not have enough understanding to direct himself without God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Without temptations, it is not possible to learn the wisdom of the Spirit. It is not possible that Divine love be strengthened in your soul. Before temptations, a man prays to God as a stranger. When temptations are allowed to come by the love of God, and he does not give in to them, then he stands before God as a sincere friend. For in fulfilling the will of God, he has made war on the enemy of God and conquered him.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Choices, World

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• In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Father, Knees, Praying

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