Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
When at home, I pray to all forms of Goddess Durga for health, wealth, peace, and prosperity for me and my family.
I’ve said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.
Listen, anybody can put their head down and throw a haymaker and pray and hope it lands.
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
I’ve always moved by my heart. I’ve moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: ‘What’s the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?’
Spirituality is no different from what we’ve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It’s just ordinary stuff.
It doesn’t matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There’s something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.
It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
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 do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.
My way of doing things is that I am going to go for it, and if it’s going to be a disaster, I will pray that God will have a way of stopping it.
I’m attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I’d cling to my kids and pray away this specter.
I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations… I pray three times a day. I try to have a real experience praying, not just do it. I really get deep into the idea and really try to get somewhere with it, to have an in-depth understanding of the idea.
I’ve been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I’m definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.
People can oftentimes mock me because of my belief in God and many times they insult me when I kneel to pray in many stadiums.
Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters – or perish as fools.
I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.
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.
As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.
What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.
You pray for days when the crappie fishing is so relentlessly good that you’re giggling like a kid and the only things you’re lacking in life are another stringer and an extra hour on the water. But what do you do with that pile of freshly caught crappies spilling out of your cooler? Call your pals for a mega-fry.
If you’ve never tried drugs, don’t. And if you have, pray.
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all a flow of love, if the heart is truly speaking to and listening to the Holy Trinity. Personally, I pray the Divine Mercy chaplet every day. We pray the Rosary every day in our family.
I meditate and pray before going onstage – it helps me focus.
I pray every day for my little girls. It’s hard out there for the younger generation.
Christians are commanded to pray in the name of Jesus. It is not a practice reserved just for personal prayers, or prayers rendered in church.
As parents, we’ll go to the ends of the earth for our kids. As soon as they’re born – and during pregnancy – we hope and pray for their good health. As soon as they’re born, we swaddle them, feed them, and breathe a sigh of relief when we see their little bodies breathing and crying as they should.
I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They’re my principal prayers; I don’t have a prayer list that I go down.
I definitely hope and pray everyone has this kind of a married life – contented and happy.
I try to remember who I am and what I come from, because I didn’t come from super means. I had to work and pray and try really hard to succeed and get everything that I wanted out of life.
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
It’s about your heart and about your consciousness. It’s not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I’ve ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
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.
My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age – our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: ‘Dear God, please don’t let him get Ebola.’ I’m proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that’s not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.
He who labours, prays.
We don’t pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans… starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
I definitely pray.
My mother asks me what round I’d like to win in, and she prays for that.
I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.
You know, 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.
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.’
First I stopped believing in hell, then the afterlife. Sometimes that connection is still there, and I’ll feel an impulse to pray if I’m stressed or upset.
There was a ‘Wired’ cover that had a big Apple logo with a crown of barbed wire as thorns, and underneath it just said, ‘Pray.’ I remember this because of how upsetting it was. Basically saying either it’s going to just go out of business or be bought.
