Pray Quotes

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

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
Loretta Lynn

Problems, Church, Answers

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

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Phillips Brooks

Stronger, Load, Lighter

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
Phillips Brooks

Men, Easy, Lives

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
Ricky Williams

Life, Success, Amazing

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham

Heart, Tough, Hide

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.
Robbie Fowler

Love, Time, Great

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Nancy Pelosi

Time, Health, God

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
Vera Farmiga

Important, Prayer, Yes

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
Vera Farmiga

We know little of the things for which we pray.
Geoffrey Chaucer

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.
Jim Bakker

God, Try, Forgive

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
Richard Russo

Good, Health, Tell

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.
Angie Harmon

Hard, Generation, Younger

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.
Angie Harmon

Religion, Lost, Confused

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.
Lester B. Pearson

Peace, Free, While

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
Peter Stuyvesant

Trouble, Name, Christ

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Barbara Walters

Time, Same, Whatever

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Mary Oliver

Flow, Swim, Inward

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
Evelyn Waugh

God, Simple, Learned

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
Charles Schumer

Time, Great, Power

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
Charles Williams

Play, Whole, Playing

I pray daily... for peace.
Paul O'Neill

I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.
Alveda King

Love, Time, God

We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.
Cliff Richard

Him, Through, Else

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.
Lil' Kim

Life, Music, Time

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
Paul Bryant

Down, Proud, Knees

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