Praying Quotes - Page 25

• I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

  Marcus Garvey

  Race, Civilization, Humanity

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Prayer, Wish, Merit

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  And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.

  Jeremiah

  Cities, Prosperity, Welfare

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• Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Worry, Anxiety

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• There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

  Will Rogers

  Ties, Politics, Election

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

  Charles Bent

  Prayer, Might, Knees

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• Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Prayer, Blessing, Giving

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Jesus, Way

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “Our Master”

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Cheer

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Weed, Work, Sunshine

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.77

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• Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Women, Son

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• The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.237, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Prayer, Ocean

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.116, Gospel Light Publications

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• It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Religion, Would Be

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• The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Boys, Discipline

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• Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.

  Oren Arnold

  Inspirational, Want, Dear God

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• My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.

  Tim Scott

  Firsts, Would Be, Three

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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• I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.

  Janice Tanton

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.

  Nichiren

  Land, Order, Insecurity

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Life Changing, Believe

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• You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

  Tad R. Callister

  Life, Marriage, Prayer

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• Pray when you feel like it, pray when you don't feel like it, pray until you do feel like it!

  W. Graham Scroggie

  Feels

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• People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

  Henri Nouwen

  Kissing, People, World

  "Encounters with Merton". Book by Henri Nouwen, September 1, 2004.

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• All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

  A. B. Simpson

  Prayer, Passing Away, Earth

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• I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Believe, Different

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2004.

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