Praying Quotes - Page 35

• We know that God is in control and we all have ups and downs and fears and uncertainty sometimes. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

  Nick Vujicic

  Promise, Needs, Sometimes

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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  Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

  Denzel Washington

  Rain, Mud, Be Careful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.

  Robert Adams

  Life, Change, Strength

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• Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

  Novalis

  Prayer, Philosophy, Thinking

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• He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

  Theodore Parker

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery”, p.179

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• I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

  Louise Erdrich

  Want Something, Church, Would Be

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.77, Odyssey Editions

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• Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Mother, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

  Barbara Cartland

  Dream, Women, Remember

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• Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Prayer, Real, Self

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• I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

  Leon Bloy

  Prayer, Fire, Doors

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• Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Prayer, Thinking, Sorrow

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• There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

  Jilly Cooper

  England, Workshops, Nations

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.344, Random House

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• When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted,
  When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored,
  When the last fire is out and the last guest departed
  Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.

  John Masefield

  Death, Prayer, Fire

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• Up, then, with speed, and work;
  Fling ease and self away--
  This is no time for thee to sleep--
  Up, watch, and work, and pray!

  Horatius Bonar

  Sleep, Self, Watches

  Horatius Bonar (1858). “Hymns of Faith and Hope ... Third edition”, p.262

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• When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, World, Don't Change

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• The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Christian, Prayer, Fire

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 192, 1895.

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• the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

  Audre Lorde

  Dying, Want, Fear Of Death

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

  Mary Webb

  People, Great Love, Silence

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• Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Men, Doe, Morality

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.6

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• Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Thinking, Doe

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• When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

  B. B. King

  Sleep, Leaving, Three

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• It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Men, Israel, Land

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• I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

  Sharon Creech

  Prayer, Tree, Easier

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

  Richard Baxter

  Blessing, Dying, Bed

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• Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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