Praying Quotes - Page 34

• Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Heart, Wicked

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.

  William Cowper

  Forgiveness, Blessing, Enemy

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: The life of William Cowper. Letters, 1765-1783”

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• The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.

  William Cowper

  Prayer

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.94

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• Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

  Euripides

  Envy

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• Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

  Susan B. Anthony

  God, Mother, Father

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• I see thou art implacable, more deaf
  To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
  Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore:
  Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
  Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

  John Milton

  Art, Hate, Wind

  John Milton, Edward Phillips (1834). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.260

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• Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Feelings, Would Be

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• Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Long, Want

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.4, New World Library

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• I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.

  Mother Teresa

  Dog, Cheerful, Littles

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• But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
  These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
  And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

  Robert Herrick

  Sunset, Two, Wish

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• To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Safety, Use

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• Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right.
  Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray,
  Though hope be weak or sick with long delay;
  Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Prayer, Light, Sick

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369

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• His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain,
  Unless He does in our affections reign.
  How fond it were to wish for such a King,
  And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
  Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
  His service freedom, and His judgments right.

  Edmund Waller

  Kings, Light, Wish

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.252

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• Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

  Margaret Mead

  Writing, Asking Questions, People

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Wish, Kingdoms

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.62, John Ruskin

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• Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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• Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Artist, Thinking, Shirts

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Prayer, Facts, Instinct

  Charles Sanders Peirce “Scientific meta-physics”

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• In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Cat, Different, Littles

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.56, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Weather, United States, Degrees

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• It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980”, p.351, Penguin UK

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• Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Horse, Heart

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• The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

  Mary McCarthy

  Guilt, Yoke, Lambs

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

  E. O. Wilson

  Prayer, Religion, World

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.364, Vintage

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• I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things.

  Robert Glasper

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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