Praying To God Quotes - Page 5

• I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice, principles, which I know to be founded in truth.

  James Otis

  Practice, Principles, Trials

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Character, Mean

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• We must be still before God.

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Stills

  F. B. Meyer (2007). “The Secret of Guidance”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hard Times, People, Giving

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• Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Prayer, Mean, Ifs

  "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".

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• It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to hold you quiet and patient and uncomplaining, and help you bear the weight of this seemingly unintelligible sorrow. I hope you will remember that this is the only world in which a Christian can suffer, and suffer patiently and meekly. We cannot suffer by and by. God helps us to glorify Him now, when we can.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Christian, Grieving, Suffering

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Missing, Helping

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• If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

  Richard G. Scott

  Want, Scripture, Praying

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• You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

  Alison Weir

  Giving, Praying, Because I Can

  Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC

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• I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

  John Wyndham

  Children, Heart, Self

  "The chrysalids".

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• But I trusted him once and I decide to do it again. I just pray to God he doesn’t shove me down and break me, because I’m already in too many pieces and I just don’t know how much more breaking I can take.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pieces, Down And, Praying

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Children, Mean, Heaven

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• I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

  John Bunyan

  Hard Work, Despair, Swallowing

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.441

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• My merry, merry, merry roundelay
  Concludes with Cupid's curse,
  They that do change old love for new,
  Pray gods, they change for worse!

  George Peele

  Life, Old Love, Praying

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele”, p.355

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• But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  William Browne

  Death, Garden, Heaven

  William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”

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• It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

  Austin Phelps

  Prayer, Men, Long

  AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93

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• Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Giving, Ministry

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c”, p.68

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• Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Prayer, Expression, Way

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• I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

  Carlos Beltran

  Player, Want, Praying

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• I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

  Benjamin Carson

  Doors, Careers, Way

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• The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

  Charles L. Allen

  Prayer, Purpose, Firsts

  Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.16, Revell

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• I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

  Mary J. Blige

  Forgiving, Praying, Show Me

  "Regal and Real: Mary J. Blige". Interview with Kevin Sessums, la-confidential-magazine.com. February 19, 2013.

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• In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

  Jerry Springer

  America, Live For Today, Generations

  Interview with Brian Polk, tv.avclub.com. May 12, 2008.

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• The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

  Duke of Wellington

  Memorial Day, War, One Day

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