Praying Quotes - Page 30

• Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.

  Lady Gaga

  Light, Fame, I Pray

  Singing the song "Paparazzi" during MTV Video Music Award, 2009.

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• I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.

  Curtis Jackson

  Winning, Needs, Care

  "Song: "Don't Push Me" ("Get Rich or Die Tryin'")". 2003.

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• Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

  Harry Houdini

  Looks, Answers

  "Death and the Magician : The Mystery of Houdini". Book by Raymund Fitzsimons, p. 166, 1981.

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• The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Soul, Lord

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Breathing, Aggravation, Waiting

  Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

  Laura Nyro

  Children, Heaven, Dying

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• I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Responsibility, Self, Order

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• I want to be able to twitch my nose like that so I can clean my house! I have four children. I have been praying for that gift, but I haven't gotten it yet.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Children, House, Noses

  "The Truth about Witchcraft with Silver RavenWolf". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. November 1, 1997.

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• There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint out horror in most hideous shapes: whil'st men unhors'd, horses unmast'red, stray'd, some call'd on those whom they most dearly lov'd, some rag'd, some groan'd, some sigh'd, roar'd, promis'd, pray'd, as blows, falls, faintness, pain, hope, anguish mov'd.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Horse, Pain, War

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• Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

  Katy Lederer

  Bridges, Rivers, Swim

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• Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Crush, Catholic, Unity

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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• Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  May, Clergy, Teach

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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• We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all.

  Justin Martyr

  Hate, Blessing, Enemy

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• Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

  Ramakrishna

  Love, Heart, Dawn

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• I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

  Susan B. Anthony

  Atheist, Fighting, Years

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• If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Prayer, Hard Work, Self

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• Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.

  Sarada Devi

  Stars, Heart, Virtue

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• I pray everywhere--in the shower, on a plane, in traffic, you name it. When I feel like I have had enough, I will literally take a knee, bow my head, and beg God for help and strength. I know not to beg Him for patience, because then He gives me situations in which I have to grow more patient; I learned that lesson! And if I am having a wonderful day, I will stop to thank Him. It's a relationship.

  Angie Harmon

  Prayer, Names, Giving

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• Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Children, Insomnia

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1993). “A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova”, Shambhala Pubns

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• I want to reconcile myself with heaven,
  I want to love, I want to pray,
  I want to believe in good.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Believe, Heaven, Want

  "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.

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• Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools." This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Prayer, School, Squares

  "Our Very Own Taliban". prospect.org. December 19, 2001.

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• I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

  Mark Driscoll

  Honesty, Heart, Study

  "Pastor Mark Packs 'em In". The Seattle Times, November 30, 2003.

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• Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Mother, War, Community

  Gruber Foundation, Women's Rights Prize, 2009.

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• From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  People, Three, Praying For You

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• I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

  Moses

  Sight, People, Grace

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