Praying Quotes - Page 36

• So let me tell you this, when it comes to...trying to introduce other people to Jesus. Don't get mad at them: it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're blind. Yelling louder, arguing harder, pushing firmer won't make someone who is blind see. Pray for them, speak to them, care for them.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Stupid, Yelling

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• Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

  Mark Driscoll

  Prayer, Moving, Heart

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• You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Spiritual, Emotional

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• To pray well one must pray much.

  Georgia Harkness

  Prayer, Wells

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1948). “Prayer and the common life”

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• ... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

  Georgia Harkness

  Practice, Know How, Knows

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• Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

  Kathryn Hulme

  Grace, Poverty, Obedience

  Kathryn Hulme, Edward Streeter, Helen Howe, Frank O'Rourke, Winston Graham (1956). “The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner”

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• I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dancer, Medical, Dental

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• Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Suffering, Sometimes, Praying For You

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• Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

  Leopold Schefer

  Prayer, Eye, Decide Upon

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• Tis not for golden eloquence I pray,
  A godlike tongue to move a stony heart--
  Methinks it were full well to be apart
  In solitary uplands far away,
  Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray,
  Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face
  Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Dream, Sweet, Moving

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• The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Christmas, Party, Giving

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• faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Faith, Thinking, Darkness

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• prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Prayer, Real, Becoming

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Hurt, Giving Up

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• Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Praying To God

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• I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.

  Javon Ringer

  One Day At A Time, Whatever Happens, Knows

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• Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.

  Trent Shelton

  Betrayal, Struggle, Mean

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• Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Looks, World, Saws

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

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• The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Prayer, Men, Answers

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• The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Reading, Temptation, Pennies

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• When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

  Opal Whiteley

  Growing Up, Sky, Tree

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• What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, People, Boredom

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• Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.

  Eve Arden

  Miracle, Life Is

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• I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sides, Boast

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• S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

  Matthea Harvey

  Rain, Eye, Simple

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