Praying Quotes - Page 20

• Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

  Casper Van Dien

  Waiting, Wish, Actors

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• My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Grandmother, Simple, Doors

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• I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

  Joshua Foer

  School, Years, Dozen

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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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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• He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

  Immanuel Kant

  Religion, Progress, Atheism

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• There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.

  Pete Townshend

  Wall, Pain, Fall

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• Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

  David Allan Coe

  Infidelity, Adultery, Cheat

  Song: Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat, 1995

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• And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

  Elton John

  Night, Men, Light

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• Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.

  Ja Rule

  Heart, Poetry, Tomorrow

  Song: The Rule Won't Die, Album: Rule 3:36

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• Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

  Alan Jackson

  Children, People, Politics

  Song: Where Were You, Album: Drive, 2002

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• The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

  Frank Zappa

  Politics, Nra, Fingers

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• They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

  Randy Travis

  Wall, Politics, Crime

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• At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

  Van Morrison

  Religious, Giving, Religion

  Song: Have I Told You Lately

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• Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.

  Gene Pitney

  Baby, Religious, Morning

  Song: Mecca

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• I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray. And I believe in a beautiful day.

  Chris Isaak

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  Song: I Believe, Album: Forever Blue, 1995

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• I got my own way of praying.

  Tom Petty

  Religious, Religion, Way

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• Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Religious, Waiting, Religion

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• Some men kneel and pray, I like women and I like wine.

  Elton John

  Religious, Wine, Men

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• Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

  Elvis Presley

  Religious, Religion, Knees

  Song: Crying in the Chapel, Album: How Great Thou Art

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• We got to pray just to make it today.

  MC Hammer

  Religious, Religion, Today

  Song: Pray

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• With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

  Michael W. Smith

  Religious, Joy, Religion

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• I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

  Luis Fortuno

  Kids, Wife, Territory

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• Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

  Celia Imrie

  Live Life, Actors, Circus

  Celia Imrie (2011). “The Happy Hoofer”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

  Chanel Iman

  Eye, Breathe, Chairs

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• Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Want, Honest

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