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Praying Quotes

Praying Definition  
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Naguib Mahfouz

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall

No praying, it spoils business.
Thomas Otway

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

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Ernest Holmes

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
E. Stanley Jones

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
Michael Enzi

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
Gypsy Rose Lee

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
Lionel Blue

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
Peace Pilgrim

She died praying that she might die.
Mary Chesnut

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
David Antin

The Indian race are waiting and praying.
Chief Joseph

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Francois Rabelais

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
Willie Nelson

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
Anita Hill

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert

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