Praying Quotes - Page 39

• I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sides, Boast

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• After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

  George Jones

  Couple, Years, Giving

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Father, Two

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.

  Juanes

  Catholic, Rosary, Dinner

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• Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

  Juanes

  Prayer, Mean

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• It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Prayer, Mistake, Puzzled

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• Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Prayer, Doubt, Heard

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• Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.

  Thomas Dubay

  Prayer, Book, Humble

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• My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

  Steve Harvey

  Mom, Mother, Teacher

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.

  Laurence Fox

  Dad, Space, Three

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• Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.

  Denzel Washington

  Beautiful, Dream, Heart

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• Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Easter, Reality

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• Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.

  Drake

  Real, Men, Fake

  Song: Know Yourself, 2015

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• On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Humor, Remembrance

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.

  Louis de Montfort

  Religious, Powerful, Blessed

  Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.28, Danka

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• I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

  David Mamet

  Space, Phrases, May

  David Mamet (2010). “Boston Marriage”, p.59, Knopf Group E-Books

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• No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Aunt, Past

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.3, Bantam

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• Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

  R. A. Torrey

  Men, Pay The Price, Church

  R. A. Torrey (2009). “The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

  Tim Walberg

  School, United States, Boards

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• I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

  Rudy Giuliani

  President, Ideologues, Pragmatists

  "Rudy Giuliani's Take on Closing Guantanamo Bay". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

  Elie Wiesel

  Jobs, Men, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.

  Francis Chan

  Half, Reverence, Half Heartedness

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

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Real, Never Forget

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

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• If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Silence, Firsts

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• The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Simple, Psalms

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.35, SCM Press

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