Praying Quotes - Page 28

• There are Christians who think and speak altogether too much about the power of Satan. They think of their adversary, they pray about him, they talk about him, and he looms up greater and greater in their imagination. It is true that Satan is a powerful being; but, thank God, we have a mighty Saviour, who cast out the evil one from heaven. Satan is pleased when we magnify his power. Why not talk of Jesus? Why not magnify His power and His love?

  Ellen G. White

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Ellen G. White “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

  Brother Lawrence

  Humility, Suffering, And Love

  Brother Lawrence (2005). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.

  Ann Voskamp

  Eye, Way, Wide

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• Once the vision of the fulfillment of your dream has been planted in your mind, bring it in to your prayer life. Each time you pray the picture to mind and meditate on it. Pray over it. See it happening. Destroy all the images of failure. Replace them with the image of success.

  Phil Pringle

  Dream, Prayer, Mind

  Phil Pringle “Hope”, Faris Digital Solutions Pte Ltd

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• To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God about all our plans, that we may be able to carry them out in His name ; and even in our most mirthful hours to remember His all-seeing eye ; this is the prayer without ceasing to which we are called, and which is really the essence of true religion.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Prayer, Eye, Men

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• They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

  Matthew Henry

  Scripture, Wells

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• Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?

  DeVon Franklin

  Integrity, Levels

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• It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Reading, Son

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1728, Delphi Classics

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• The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Stars, Rain, Flames

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.425

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• You should never trust a person who prays in public.

  Stephen King

  Never Trust, Should, Persons

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.

  Matthew Arnold

  Summer, Lonely, Gay

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place.

  Shirley Temple

  Country, Block, Moving

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• I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Feet, May, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.174

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• Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Thinking, People, Democracy

  Speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco in 1939. "America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson" by Eugene C. Gerhart, 1958.

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• I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

  Kim Wilde

  Dream, Night, Ceilings

  Song: Fit In, 1984

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• For I've finally realized that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.

  Gloria Estefan

  Eye, People, Stronger

  "Song: 'Always Tomorrow'". 1992.

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• I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

  Shinzo Abe

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Issues, Have Faith

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.107, Macmillan

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• As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, Giving, Perfect

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• Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Rosemary, Herbs

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [174]

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• You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

  Will Rogers

  Gun, Sides, Pilgrim

  Radio broadcast, April 14, 1935.

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• Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Kind, Accepted

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.102

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• As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.

  Daniel Defoe

  Christian, Running, Horse

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different. When they [Conservative right wing Republicans] talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Kindness, Thinking

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", November 5, 2004.

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• Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."

  Plutarch

  Beautiful, Fashion, Hair

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 57 Lycurgus. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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