Praying Quotes - Page 16

• Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I believe that to pray without ceasing means to think good thoughts without ceasing.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2009). “Grace for the Moment: A 365 Day Journaling Devotional”, p.271, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Want, Way

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books

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• Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Gratitude, Strong, Prayer

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• The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls.

  Shinzo Abe

  Country, Believe, Approval Rating

  "Shinzo Abe Talk Asia interview". Interview With Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2007.

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• It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money.

  Danny DeVito

  Dog, Acceptance, Three Things

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• I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

  Bill Fitch

  Leadership, Sports, Religious

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• When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

  Viola Davis

  People, People In Your Life, Praying To God

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• We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

  John Coltrane

  Dedication, Might, Way

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• I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Heart, Blessing, Dignity

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.51, B&H Publishing Group

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• When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

  Erin Gray

  Giving Up, Meditation, Answers

  "Erin Gray, then and now: an interview" by Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I am still praying for revolution.

  Ani DiFranco

  Revolution, Stills

  Song: Fixing Her Hair, Album: Imperfectly

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• We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret
  perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Wings, Kites

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Want

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.80, Vintage Canada

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• Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

  David A. Bednar

  Circumstances, Changed

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• If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Helping, Thee

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.453, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY,
  AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Answers, Harvest, Plant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• I’m praying for a misdemeanor

  Bobby Bowden

  Misdemeanors

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• I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Past, Hands, Hygiene

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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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• Praying is not about asking; it's about listening...
  It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Eye, Listening, Asking

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• Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

  Lisa See

  Boys, Garden, Praying Mantis

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• The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Voice, Giving

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