Praying Quotes - Page 31

• I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory. And whenever he let down his arms, the enemy prevailed over the children of Israel. Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?

  Sophie Scholl

  Children, Night, Thinking

  "Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way" by Johann Christoph Arnold, (p. 155), 2000.

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• Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

  Dannie Abse

  Garden, Rose, Tree

  Dannie Abse (2001). “Goodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography”, Vintage

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• Parents should teach their children to pray. The child learns both from what the parents do and what they say. The child who sees a mother or a father pass through the trials of life with fervent prayer to God and then hears a sincere testimony that God answered in kindness will remember what he or she saw and heard. When trials come, that individual will be prepared.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Mother, Kindness, Prayer

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• Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Consistency, Answers

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• I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Desire, Passionate

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• Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Brother, Children

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• I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.

  Bill Hybels

  Prayer, Fall, Writing

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.

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• For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.

  Teresa of Avila

  War, Perfect, Soldier

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.163, A&C Black

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• The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!

  Matthew Henry

  Strong, Prayer, Tears

  Matthew Henry, Samuel Palmer (1838). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament ...”, p.715

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• A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Giving, Lamps

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• The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Blow, Winning

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• When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.

  Catherine Marshall

  Dream, Spiritual, Flower

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• Let us always pray for one another.

  Pope Francis

  Pope Francis (2013). “I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope”, p.9, Paulist Press

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• Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't.

  Paul Gerhardt

  May

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• In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Prayer, Heart, Blessing

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• On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'

  Thomas More

  Life, Success, Honesty

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• Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

  Herbert Hoover

  Prayer, Lakes, Sea

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• Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Blessing, Ucla

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• I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best.

  Ali Larter

  Pants, Likes, Mum

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• Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps. I pray for you every night. You’ve taught me to feel confident in myself, believe in myself that I can do it when I didn’t think I could do it.
  
  Dad, it’s been an up-and-down road for all of us, but you’ve always been there supporting from afar, texting me Bible verses every single day, telling me you love me every single day. That builds me up and I thank you so much. I love you. I’m just glad you’re part of this journey with us.

  Kevin Durant

  Brother, Believe, Love You

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stars, Lying, Miscarriage

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• We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.

  William J. Clinton

  Kids, Atheism, Needs

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• In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual's decision on whether and when to pray.

  Barbara Brandriff Crabb

  Prayer, Powerful, Government

  "Judge who struck down National Day of Prayer in an uncomfortable place: the spotlight". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2010.

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• The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray."

  Alan Dershowitz

  Christian, Jesus, Home

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• At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Jesus, Air, Atheism

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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