Praying Quotes - Page 26

• Who you become is determined by how you pray

  Mark Batterson

  Determined

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.7, Zondervan

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• Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again! I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. Particularly, it was only Islam that provided satisfactory answer to the question relating to the birth of Christ. For the first time I was convinced about the religion itself. I pray my family members might appreciate these facts.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Appreciate, Islam, Answers

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• Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Hands, Poor

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• On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Heart, Biblical

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Dying

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• Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Able, Heard

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.11, Augsburg Books

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• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Bird, Spiders

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Heart, Ambition

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

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• Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving, Should, Faculty

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.104, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

  T. S. Eliot

  Care, Hours, Teach

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Men, Principles

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XXI, "Afterword," p. 312, 1975.

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• I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

  Mario Balotelli

  Thinking, Winning, Giving

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• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.

  Martin Luther

  Stars, Wine, Beer

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• Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.

  Jimmy Carter

  Laughing, Working Together, Triumph

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Study, My Family

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

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• When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

  Idries Shah

  Prayer, Mean, Emotional

  Idries Shah (1991). “Seeker After Truth”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd

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  If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.

  Nick Vujicic

  True Friend, World, Firsts

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• I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

  Philemon

  Understanding, May, Christ

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• I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

  Philemon

  Brother, Heart, Joy

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• More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?

  Chuck Austen

  Cancer, Names, People

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• We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

  Tom DeLonge

  Writing, Artist, Blink 182

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Two

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.133

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• Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Long

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.270

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• I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

  Aeschylus

  Summer, Dog, Jobs

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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