Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
Frederick William Robertson

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Ramakrishna

Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'
Thomas Kinkade

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

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
Barry Zito

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston

Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.
Jessica Hahn

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.
Richard G. Scott

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

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

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
Ricky Martin

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
George Muller

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

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
Mike Tyson

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