Praying Quotes

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

~ Toba Beta

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

~ Orson Welles

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

~ Criss Jami

There are times...when we are in the midst of life-moments of confrontation with birth or death, or moments of beauty when nature or love is fully revealed, or moments of terrible loneliness-times when a holy and awesome awareness comes upon us. It may come as deep inner stillness or as a rush of overflowing emotion. It may seem to come from beyond us, without any provocation, or from within us, evoked by music or by a sleeping child. If we open our hearts at such moments, creation reveals itself to us in all it's unity and fullness. And when we return from such a moment of awareness, our hearts long to find some way to capture it in words forever, so that we can remain faithful to it's higher truth....When my people search for a name to give to the truth we feel at those moments, we call it God, and when we capture that understanding in timeless poetry, we call it praying.

~ Mary Doria Russell

When you suffer, you are being conformed to the image of Jesus. When you pray, you are being made holy in the image of Jesus. When you quietly serve a person in need, you are being shaped into the image of Jesus. When you generously give, your heart is being remade into the image of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

~ Allen R. Hunt

I would fight every angel between us until God said, Yes.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind with Apache and Lupe. We barricaded the door with the rug and started bailing water out the window. Mother came back and begged us to go pray with her on the hilltop. To heck with praying! I shouted. Bail, dammit, bail!Mom look mortified. I could tell she thought I'd probably doomed us all with my blasphemy, and I was a little shocked at it myself, but with the water rising so fast, the situation was dire. We had lit the kerosene lamp, and we could see the walls of the dugout were beginning to sag inward. If Mom had pitched in and helped, there was a chance we might have been able to save the dugout - not a good chance, but a fighting chance. Apache and Lupe and I couldn't do it on our own, though, and when the ceiling started to cave, we grabbed Mom's walnut headboard and pulled it through the door just as the dugout collapsed in on itself, burying everything.Afterward, I was pretty aggravated with Mom. She kept saying that the flood was God's will and we had to submit to it. But I didn't see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail - the gumption to try to save ourselves - isn't that what he wanted us to do?

~ Jeannette Walls

Please God, let your face shine in glory on us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May the goodness of God's face forever shine on our path.

~ Laiah Gifty Akita

Praying is pleasing to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Praying is a realm of possibilities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is full assurance of faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A single prayer can alter your destiny if you have enough faith to believe. If this can be true, pray daily prayers for that someone, too.

~ Machel Shull

Praying is a persuasive act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Purify your heart with prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

…be awake to the Life that is loving you andsing your prayer, laugh your prayer, dance your prayer, runand weep and sweat your prayer,sleep your prayer, eat your prayer, paint, sculpt, hammer, and read your prayer, sweep, dig, rake, drive and hoe your prayer,garden and farm and build and clean your prayer,wash, iron, vacuum, sew, embroider and pickle your prayer,compute, touch, bend and fold but never deleteor mutilate your prayer.Learn and play your prayer, work and rest your prayer,fast and feast your prayer, argue, talk, whisper, listen and shout your prayer,groan and moan and spit and sneeze your prayer,swim and hunt and cook your prayer,digest and become your prayer,release and recover your prayer,breathe your prayer, be your prayer

~ Alla Renée Bozarth

In your handsThe dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive.Who would argue otherwise?But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that.What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines?Listen, all you have to do is start and There’ll be no stopping.What about mountains? What about water Slipping over rocks?And speaking of stones, what about The little ones you can Hold in your hands, their heartbeats So secret, so hidden it may take yearsBefore, finally, you hear them?

~ Mary Oliver

On the concept of unity- “Thatʼs right-Jesusʼ most pressing concern beforeleaving the earth was our unity. He was looking ahead, to every generation ofbeliever. And as he prayed, he made it clear that our witness as his body in thisfractured , messed-up, chaotic world would depend on our love for another.

~ Ed Galisewski

With prayer, we shall keep our heart pure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O heavenly Father increase our Faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Praying is passionate faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O LORD let thy peace be upon all people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O LORD God give us a heart to heed to thy holy word.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Prayer purifies the heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process.

~ Germany Kent

If each hair on our head is accounted for, then wouldn't even the smallest of prayers matter?

~ Allene Van Oirschot

O Lord open our eyes to see the wonders of your holy word.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God hears every prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why are men so noisy during the liturgies while Christ's prayer was silent? The words of the Son of God come from the heart, and the heart is silent. Why do we not know how to speak with a silent heart? The heart of Jesus does not speak. It radiates with love because its language comes from the divine depths.

~ Robert Sarah

The path of prayer is way of purity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The peace within is the power of the Holy Spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ask for God's grace, He freely gives, whoever ask.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A woman in want must wait for the appointed time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is a pillar.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Better channel your words into prayer, than into complaints. Zip your mouth and make a plan.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Praying is a prevailing force.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sweetness of prayer is the prosperity of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not get down on your knees to pray just to show God that you always remember him. Instead stay on your feet, and always do as he would do in place of him.

~ Suzy Kassem

If you pray with your knees bow, you surrender to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita