Praying To God Quotes - Page 9

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Dwight L. Moody

Christian, Believe, Men

Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.

Iyanla Vanzant

Prayer, Mind, Answers

Twitter post from Sep 12, 2016

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A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

Hubert Van Zeller

Prayer, Praying, God Love

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... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain this virtue, and making no effort towards it, truly this man tempts God, rather than prays. Thus the divine James says: 'The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much' (Jms. 5:16). What avails to make prayer effective? is when, besides begging a saint to pray for him about something, the man also prays about it himself and with all diligence does everything necessary for obtaining his request.

Lorenzo Scupoli

Christian, Prayer, Mean

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Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Francis Chan

Desire, Trying, Greatest Love

Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.121, David C Cook

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Seeing a cat loving her kittens stand and pray. God has become manifest there; literally believe this. Repeat "I am Thine, I am Thine", for we can see God everywhere. Do not seek for Him, just see Him.

Swami Vivekananda

Believe, Cat, Praying

Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Children, Sleep, Giving

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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

Francois Rabelais

Sleep, Praying, I Pray To God

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 716-21, Gargantua, Book I, Chapter XLI, 1922.

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Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Hartley Coleridge

Prayer, Perfect, Wish

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

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How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Blood, Justice, Literature

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God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.

Marcus Garvey

Jobs, Home, Godly

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I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

Orson Welles

Sex, Hate, Hands

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

Dwight L. Moody

Believe, Heart, Ambition

Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

Francois Fenelon

Simple, Giving, Perfect

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He who will pray to God eagerly will see Him.

Sarada Devi

Praying

Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.

Sarada Devi

Pain, Grief, Compassion

"In the Company of the Holy Mother" by Advaita Ashrama, (pp. 220-221), 1993.

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Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.

Sarada Devi

Stars, Heart, Praying

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When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and you say: "Thy will be done O Lord. The Lord giveth, and he taketh away", you have not yet known the God of love, for God giveth only. God never takes that which has not been given. What God gives to you you regive to Him for His regiving.
You rejoice when God gives birth to life, yet you deeply grieve when you give rebirth to new life - for that is what death is.

Walter Russell

Life, Grief, Grieving

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Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun. . . . . Til that myn herte dye. . . . . That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake!

Geoffrey Chaucer

Men, May, Sake

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Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time.

Swami Vivekananda

Believe, Men, Self

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3573, Manonmani Publishers

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

Richard B. Garnett

Praying

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I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.

P. J. O'Rourke

Cute, Home, America

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Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

David O. McKay

Children, Attitude, Heart

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Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Prayer, Real, Praying

Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.136, Harmony

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