Praying Quotes - Page 32

• We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Years, Atheism, Done

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.12, Rowman Altamira

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• I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Religious, Thinking, Talking

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• It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Father, Fall, Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic

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• To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

  Barbara Smoker

  Wise, Prayer, Hymns

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• To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mind, Atheism, Christ

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• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prayer, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

  Van Jones

  Son, Saint, Let Me

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.

  Muhammad Ali

  Purpose, Easy, Five

  "Oprah Talks to Muhammad Ali". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June, 2001.

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• I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, School, Men

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June, 2001.

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• I don't think that I'll always necessarily be, I guess, famous. I think, hopefully I'll just have longevity at what I love. So, I kind of think it's about taking the right steps and the right roles, and doing the best you can... and praying.

  Selena Gomez

  Thinking, Steps, Roles

  Interview with Miranda Clarke, cinemanerdz.com. July 4, 2011.

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• When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lying, Bed, Enough

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

  Lil B

  Years, People, Personality

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting.

  Henri Nouwen

  Clouds, Light, Knowing

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• You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.

  Vera Farmiga

  Religious

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• If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Writing, Blood, Understanding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.412, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.435, Library of Alexandria

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• Michele Bachmann told reporters that she will lead the nation in prayer if she is elected president. You know if she is elected president, we all better be praying. She doesn't have to lead us.

  Jay Leno

  Prayer, President, Reporters

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• The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, 'Lord, teach us to preach'; Lord, teach us to do miracles,' or 'Lord, teach us to be wise'...but they said, 'Lord, teach us to pray.'

  Billy Graham

  Wise, Jesus, Responsibility

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.272, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Israel, Omission

  Matthew Henry (1808). “An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations”

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• To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Clouds, Eagles, Wings

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.486, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Mind, Christ

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.198, Discovery House

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• Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Flower, Heart

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• What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

  Sitting Bull

  Prayer, Long, Doe

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• Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Night, Hands, Tuesday

  Song: Casimir Pulaski Day, 2005

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