Definition of Pray

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Definition of Pray

Pray

See Pry.

To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.

To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.

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Pray Quotations

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Norman Vincent Peale

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy

Pray Translations

pray in Afrikaans is bid
pray in Danish is bede
pray in Dutch is bidden
pray in Finnish is rukoilla
pray in French is prions, priez, prient
pray in German is Bitte bedenken Sie doch!, beten
pray in Italian is pregano
pray in Spanish is rezar
pray in Swedish is bedja

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