Praying To God Quotes - Page 9

• ... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain this virtue, and making no effort towards it, truly this man tempts God, rather than prays. Thus the divine James says: 'The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much' (Jms. 5:16). What avails to make prayer effective? is when, besides begging a saint to pray for him about something, the man also prays about it himself and with all diligence does everything necessary for obtaining his request.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• Trying harder doesn’t work for me.  Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

  Francis Chan

  Desire, Trying, Greatest Love

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.121, David C Cook

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• There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

  Harold Stassen

  Courage, Selfish, Men

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• Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

  Angie Martinez

  Spiritual, Godly, Flow

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• God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.

  Marcus Garvey

  Jobs, Home, Godly

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• I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Sex, Hate, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learn the lines and pray to God.

  Claude Rains

  Lines, Praying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Blood, Justice, Literature

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• I think the thing that -- the prayer that I would like America is to ask for is to pray for God's protection for our land and our people, to pray against -- that there's a shield of protection, so that if the evil ones try to hit us again, that we've done everything we can, physically, and that there is a spiritual shield that protects the country.

  George W. Bush

  Spiritual, Country, Prayer

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• While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Father, New Day

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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 believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Believe, Men

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Prayer, Perfect, Wish

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369

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• He who will pray to God eagerly will see Him.

  Sarada Devi

  Praying

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.

  Sarada Devi

  Pain, Grief, Compassion

  "In the Company of the Holy Mother" by Advaita Ashrama, (pp. 220-221), 1993.

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• Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.

  Sarada Devi

  Stars, Heart, Praying

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• Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Sleep, Giving

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• When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and you say: "Thy will be done O Lord. The Lord giveth, and he taketh away", you have not yet known the God of love, for God giveth only. God never takes that which has not been given. What God gives to you you regive to Him for His regiving.
  You rejoice when God gives birth to life, yet you deeply grieve when you give rebirth to new life - for that is what death is.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Grief, Grieving

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• My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Suffering, Praying

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.192, Tara Publishing

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• As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

  Lee Roberson

  Prayer, Should, Reviews

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• We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Men

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• Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun. . . . . Til that myn herte dye. . . . . That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, May, Sake

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• Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3573, Manonmani Publishers

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• Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Praying

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• I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

  Winfield Scott Hancock

  Care, May, Fields

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