Praying Quotes - Page 33

• I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.

  Janice Tanton

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

  Henri Nouwen

  Kissing, People, World

  "Encounters with Merton". Book by Henri Nouwen, September 1, 2004.

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• All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

  A. B. Simpson

  Prayer, Passing Away, Earth

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• Who you become is determined by how you pray

  Mark Batterson

  Determined

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.7, Zondervan

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• On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Heart, Biblical

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Dying

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• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Bird, Spiders

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Men, Principles

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XXI, "Afterword," p. 312, 1975.

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• I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

  Mario Balotelli

  Thinking, Winning, Giving

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• Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.

  Jimmy Carter

  Laughing, Working Together, Triumph

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Study, My Family

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

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• I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

  Philemon

  Understanding, May, Christ

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• I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

  Philemon

  Brother, Heart, Joy

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• We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

  Tom DeLonge

  Writing, Artist, Blink 182

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Two

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.133

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• Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.

  Dorothy Day

  Kings, Hands, Working Together

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.85, A&C Black

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• Who God doth late and early pray,
  More of his grace than gifts to send,
  And entertains the harmless day
  With a well-chosen book or friend.

  Henry Wotton

  Book, Grace, Late

  "The Character of a Happy Life". Poem by Henry Wotton, 1614.

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• God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you're praying for a million dollars. God has said, "I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested." It's done, in Jesus' name.

  Pat Robertson

  Jesus, Prayer, Names

  "Pat Robertson Claims God Will Give One of His Viewers $1M" by Michael Gryboski, www.christianpost.com. March 01, 2013.

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• The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Father, War, Church

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• The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the more we want to pray.

  Jim Cymbala

  Needs, Want

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.52, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

  Ole Hallesby

  Helpless

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Prayer, People, Miracle

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• Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Wings, Crutches

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• Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

  Austin O'Malley

  Prayer, Dark, Night

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