I Pray Quotes - Page 14

• I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

  Gary Panter

  Praying, More Money

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Religious, Opportunity

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Sight, People

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• When I pray for revival I pray first for the most radical thing: The utter devotion and allegiance of your hearts to Christ. That you would love Him so deeply and long for Him so passionately that His coming would be your great hope, and death would be gain, and life would be for Christ and His kingdom.

  John Piper

  Heart, Long, Would Be

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• The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

  Michelle Shocked

  Praying, Manifest, Loving Person

  Source: www.spin.com

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• When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Judging, May, Lasts

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.123, Baen Books

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• I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

  Elayne Boosler

  Basketball, Years, Games

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• Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

  Bill Watterson

  Differences, Inability, Praying

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• My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And I do. And my faith is a very, it's very personal. I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family. I pray for my little girls.

  George W. Bush

  Girl, Faith, Play

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• I pray thee cease thy counsel,
  Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Memorable, Water

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.134

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• Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Wise, Art, Brother

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• I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket

  Sania Mirza

  Epic, Player, Ms Dhoni

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Speech, Tongue, Language

  William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.160

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Song, Prayer, Believe

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.149, Vintage

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• The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Thinking, Looks, Praying

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• I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

  Loretta Lynn

  Church, Answers, Praying

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.194, Vintage

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• I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I pray all the time — for self-control, for humility. There's a lot of gratitude in it. Just saying 'thank you' sometimes is better than asking for things.

  Katy Perry

  Christian, Gratitude, Buddhist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age -- the Age of Transparency -- the facts and the truth will out.

  Imelda Marcos

  Real, Fighting, Perception

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• Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

  Sally Mann

  Angel, Serendipity, Might

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• God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

  Jim Elliot

  Christian, Jesus, Light

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• Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

  Vernon Cooper

  Book, Men, Doctors

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• I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

  Lusia Strus

  Character, Actors, Praying

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• I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

  Peyton Manning

  Prayer, Night, Sight

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• Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Prayer, Artist, Encounters

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