Quotes on Praying

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

Most people don't pray until they're in trouble._x000D_ _x000D_ When people need help they pray a lot._x000D_ _x000D_ But after they get what they want, they slow down._x000D_ _x000D_ If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. _x000D_ _x000D_ Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!