Words matter. These are the best Praying Quotes from famous people such as Jack Dee, Michaela Coel, Angelina Grimke, Mike Huckabee, Chieh Huang, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I’m not praying to something that I can define; I’m just speaking because I know it does have an effect.
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.
Prayer’s important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it’s a way to refresh one’s own mind and motive. If you’re praying, you’re really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.
Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it’s a different way to increase profits.
I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.
At any one time the world has a very limited number of Steve Jobs or Winston Churchills or Thomas Watson the firsts. These are wonderful people and we can learn much from them, but praying for a few more of them to solve the world’s problems is not a great idea.
I don’t ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
I think praying is very important. I’m not going to say that I’m very religious and I don’t go to church as much as I should probably, but I definitely pray more than the average person. I’m a man of the Lord.
My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin – and it took a lot of praying to discover this – that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him.
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of puritans praying – even if it did involve a witch.
First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.
When I’m standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can’t just whip out my Bible before I run. That’s when I start praying! It’s so loud that I can’t even hear what I’m saying, but it always helps.
The only times I’m consistent about praying are when I’m on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.
It’s different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you’re just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you’ve got to think: ‘OK, I’m just going to have to leap now.’
I am open and respect everyone’s religious and spiritual choices because at the end of the day, in my opinion, I hope that we are all praying to the same God.
I remember being in my house from when I was, like, five to when I was, like, 12. When hurricanes would happen, you just hold hands, and you say, ‘You know what, we have each other. We’re praying,’ and this roof can literally peel off of your house.
My family is always praying for me.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I’ve gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.
I had to tell Dad, ‘It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith’. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.
No praying, it spoils business.
As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ‘Pears like I didn’t do nothing but pray for ole master. ‘Oh, Lord, convert ole master;’ ‘Oh, dear Lord, change dat man’s heart, and make him a Christian.’
You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there’s an Omega Point of love.
I was a disappointment to my parents before I drew my first breath. After five boys, they had been praying for a girl and were convinced their prayers would be answered. So when Dad rang the hospital from a public phone and heard about my arrival, he started kicking and punching the kiosk.
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.
Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
There were questions I didn’t have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying.
I am praying every day for peace.
Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church’s business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.
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.
As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.
When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, ‘I’m transgender.’
I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Praying in Jesus’ name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.
I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.
I’ve been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because… maybe… that’s the thing I’ve been searching for.
I feel like it is important to make sure you are always praying, always talking to have clarity of mind and peace.
I don’t want to be like a flag in the wind one day like this and one day like the other, praying for a few points. Sometimes at this level we have to, sadly, work within this pressure in your day to day work, and that’s quite normal.
So in prison basically is when I started to build a good relationship with God and I started praying a lot. I read the bible a lot so I started to get a lot of knowledge about life.
I can never bring myself to watch Mahesh’s films. It’s way too stressful for me. All his family members are eager to attend and enjoy the previews of his films like normal people. But I sit at home chewing my nails, praying, wondering if this one will be as big as the previous one, and so on.
The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I’m a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they’ve ever seen it.
I’m a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one’s listening. I think it’s just a habit of mindfulness.
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I’m ashamed to admit that I still can’t read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.
I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I’m glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It’s hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.
This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we’re desperate, if we feel like we’re beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we’re tradesmen.