Being raised Muslim, we had to get up at the crack of dawn to pray. There was no sleeping in, no getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons because there was no TV in the house. But you got up and you worked, cleaned the house.
Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.
My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that’s what I did.
I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.
It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
God doesn’t just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child’s going to drink that water.
I’m not religious, but I do pray. It’s 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.
My kids are so cute when they pray.
I pray every day and think everybody should.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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.
Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.
Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?
Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn’t call on me.
I go to the mountains for an adventure and each time I pray I will get up and down again.
I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I’m just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that’s the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.
In the morning before all the craziness happens, I make sure to pray, and I’ll put aside 10 minutes to meditate. I feel when I do that, I’m able to get through my day a lot better.
I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.
High maintenance means a lot of care. My relationships are high maintenance, my body is high maintenance, and my soul is high maintenance. I really care about my friends and my family; I eat good; I pray a lot. So it’s like, I really care about my relationships with my family, my friends, my body and my soul.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don’t wake up with it.
We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We’ve had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we’re going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace.
I know John Lewis was a man of deep faith and I pray that his spirit will always guide us as we continue the work of systemic change. He charted a path for us. May we all commit to walk in his footsteps.
I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.
I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else… and I will pray for you.
I don’t like somebody saying to me in their performance, ‘Look at this. Isn’t this funny?’ I pray that I don’t do that. I’m sure I fall off the horse every once in a while, but I try not to.
Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.
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.
Quite often, when I am recording a song or getting ready for a concert, I pray.
My works on Lord Siva have been received well. But then, since it is in the praise of Siva, its acceptability is limited to those who believe in and pray to Lord Siva.
I’m a morning person so I like to be up by 6 am to wash and pray before the sun rises, and then have a tea at the kitchen table.
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.
I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.
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.
My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was – all day long, they would pray by singing and humming.
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, ‘Get me home alive, God, and I’ll seek you and serve you.’ I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I’d made to God.
Usually, before I salute the judge, I’m able to just grab the event, and I pray on it, and that really grounds me. For some reason, once I do that, I am able to think clearly, and I’m able to calm down right before I compete.
Come election time, black and white politicians put on their costumes of compassion and care, shake black hands, kiss black babies, sing ‘We Shall Overcome’ in black , and pray that we will ignore the reality of everyday suffering and the damage that is being done to our future in exchange for our votes.
My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. ‘Forgive me Lord.’ For what, I didn’t know.
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
I ideally would like to do three films every year. Every day, I pray for it. But I should like a script before I sign on a film.
I’ve always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn’t a magic formula, but it’s an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
‘You better do a lot of praying’ is good counsel for all of the Lord’s servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?’ No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.’
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
Before I step in the Octagon, I pray one last time and take a huge deep breath, and then I’m home.
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I’m at Mass. My mother always said, ‘We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people’s health, we pray that God’s will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.’
The old Devil gets mad when you’re trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
