Pray Quotes

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert

Him, Learn, Sea

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.
Martha Reeves

Prayer, Found, Miracles

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.
Joyce Meyer

Down, Trying, Stuff

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.
Demi Lovato

Morning, Sleep, Night

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Miguel de Cervantes

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Before, Between, Difference

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
Ivan Turgenev

God, Person, May

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
Joseph Hall

God, Happy, Wise

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.
Pat Robertson

Life, Spiritual, Down

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'
Michael Bloomberg

God, Alive, Lives

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
Loretta Young

Rich, Old, Poor

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis

God, Truth, May

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
Mahalia Jackson

Good, God, Trying

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.
Christina Ricci

Important, Christian, Before

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Abbe Pierre

Sunday, Enough, Act

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
Willie Aames

God, Heart, Show

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
Kevin Smith

Time, Long, Questions

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
Benjamin Carson

Life, Great, Happen

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.
Whitney Houston

Good, Gotta, Saints

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Samuel Richardson

Good, Humble, Lord

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Georges Bernanos

God, Wish, Prayer

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Hurt, Fight, Before

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
Debra Winger

Patience, Down, Try

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, Love, Before

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
Wendell Berry

Time, Good, God

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
Benjamin Carson

God, Wisdom, Important

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
Benjamin Carson

Life, Great, God

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
Jonathan Sacks

Wisdom, Mind, Focus

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Time, God

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono

Work, Through, Wish

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