Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
Georg Solti

Are you living for the things you are praying for?
Austin Phelps

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
Karen Kain

Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
Whitley Strieber

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason Cooley

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
Donald Cargill

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Haruki Murakami

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
Samuel Rutherford

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
Angelina Grimke

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.
Brian Celio

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
Lara Flynn Boyle

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.
Julie Gold

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
Abraham Cahan

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
Dennis Rodman

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.
Charisma Carpenter