Praying Quotes - Page 24

• I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Despair, Needs

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Brotherhood, Together

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• Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Lying, World, Welfare

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 29, 2017

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• To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

  Louise Erdrich

  Prayer, Men, Stitches

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• If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Caring, Thinking, Turtles

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• To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.

  Thomas Secker

  Fire, Temptation, Might

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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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• After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do.

  Ann Jillian

  Moving, Winner, Accepting

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• There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

  Gabriel Macht

  Bird, Care, Weak

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• CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Jesus, Mean, Heart

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar. To each one of you, I ask you to continue to support me by praying to God to let me be his gentle and firm pastor of his church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Heart, Support

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• Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.

  Princess Diana

  Princess, Caring, Church

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• Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Prayer, Artist, Encounters

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• People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.

  Emmy Rossum

  Rational, Accurate, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

  Eric Milner-White

  House, Christ, Hours

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• We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Perseverance, Determination, Wish

  Harold S. Kushner (2007). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People”, p.159, Anchor

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• When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Believe, Belief, Bigs

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• Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Prayer, Healing, Blessing To Others

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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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• What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Men, Doors, Sick

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• I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Prayer, Truth

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.33, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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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 don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

  Orson Welles

  Want, Bores

  Interview with Merv Griffin. "Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles". Book by Frank Brady, Charles Scribner's Sons edition, p. 576, 1989.

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• Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.

  Will Rogers

  Morning, Giving, Politics

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