Praying Quotes - Page 13

• I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

  Vincent de Paul

  Men, Charity, Our Family

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Understanding, Way

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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• Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Gratitude, Strong, Prayer

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• The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls.

  Shinzo Abe

  Country, Believe, Approval Rating

  "Shinzo Abe Talk Asia interview". Interview With Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2007.

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• When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

  Peter Kreeft

  Silly, Son, Dark

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• The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or others may do or say, may turn out to have dire results.

  Harry Blamires

  Thinking, Long, Soul

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• It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money.

  Danny DeVito

  Dog, Acceptance, Three Things

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• Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Meat, Looks

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• Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

  Charles Bukowski

  Mad, Sick, Bird

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.235, Canongate Books

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• ...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.

  Walter Wink

  Jesus, Mean, Godly

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• Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.

  George IV of the United Kingdom

  Glasses, Brandy, Wells

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• One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name of Deity is enjoined in holy writ. Jesus made this clear when teaching His disciples to pray. He said, addressing the Father, "Hallowed be thy name: (see Matthew 6:9). Blaspheming the name of God separates man from his Creator."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Jesus, Father

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

  Bill Fitch

  Leadership, Sports, Religious

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• When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

  Viola Davis

  People, People In Your Life, Praying To God

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• We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

  John Coltrane

  Dedication, Might, Way

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• I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Heart, Blessing, Dignity

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.51, B&H Publishing Group

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• When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

  Arthur Wallis

  Letting Go, Heart, Mean

  Arthur Wallis (2011). “God's Chosen Fast: A Spiritual and Practical Guide to Fasting”, p.54, CLC Publications

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• I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Waiting, Ready, Dies

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• When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

  Erin Gray

  Giving Up, Meditation, Answers

  "Erin Gray, then and now: an interview" by Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I am still praying for revolution.

  Ani DiFranco

  Revolution, Stills

  Song: Fixing Her Hair, Album: Imperfectly

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• Wisdom and strength, and my family, is what I'd like for you to pray for.

  George W. Bush

  My Family

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• We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret
  perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Wings, Kites

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Want

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.80, Vintage Canada

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• I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

  Robert E. Lee

  Rights, People, Feelings

  "The American Soul: An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans". Book by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63, 1920.

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