Praying Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.

  Rene Leriche

  Cemetery, Surgeons, Carrie

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• Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Christian, Mother, Taught

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• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  Ian Frazier

  Religious, Men, Medicine

  Ian Frazier (2000). “On the Rez”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Sacrifice, Grace

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.35, David C Cook

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• How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

  Bill Hybels

  Prayer, Moving, Focus

  Bill Hybels, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1994). “Prayer: Too Busy Not to Pray”, p.23, InterVarsity Press

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• People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

  Andy Stanley

  One Direction, People, Different

  "Interview: Andy Stanley on the Principle of the Path". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 18, 2009.

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• Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

  LeCrae

  Prayer, Desire, Burden

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• Just pray and God gone make a way

  Webbie

  Gone, Way

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• Im not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

  Sania Mirza

  Thinking, Perfect, Islam

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• Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Purpose, Glory

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• Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Heaven, Tasks

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• Sam Harris made that great analogy. He said, 'If someone was talking into their hair dryer and claiming that they were speaking to God, they would call Bellevue. But, take away the hair dryer, it's just praying.'

  Bill Maher

  Hair, Talking, Analogies

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• When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants.

  Mary Potter

  Saws, Lord, Instant

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• To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Names, Mind, Desire

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• "Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Believe, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.162

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• Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

  Sammy Cahn

  Joy

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• The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on.... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten.... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.

  William Graham Sumner

  Fall, Men, Names

  "The Forgotten Man" (1883) See Franklin Roosevelt 3

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• You cannot pray them out of hell.

  Bill Murray

  Scary, Hell

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• Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Scary, Melting

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• The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Pride, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

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• For men were born to pray and save:
  Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
  It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Gone, Born

  "September, 1913" l. 7 (1914)

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• I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Jefferson Papers [1770-1826”

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• Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.

  Herman Melville

  Country, War, Expectations

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.272

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• A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lord, Britain, Englishmen

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.103

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