Pray Quotes Quotes & Sayings

This woman is so didactic I think I may scream. If it's bleeding, bandage it. If it's crying, hug it. If it's hopeless, pray for it. If it's dead, resurrect it. — Rachel Allord

Our prayers can go where we cannot ... there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray. — Brother Andrew

Pray humbly.
Pray happily.
Pray hopefully.
Pray habitually. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you're feeling down ...
Smile
Stand tall, shoulder back
Compliment someone
Help someone in a big or small way
Listen to music
Clean your space
Plan your day
Do what your brain tells you can't or shouldn't
Pray (or meditate) with a focus on gratitude
Breathe — Charles F. Glassman

you only talk to yourself when you pray without believing and having faith in your prayers — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If your husband's self-image needs a makeover, be patient. The answers don't come overnight when a long-held pattern of thinking has to be broken. But you can appropriate the power of God to fight the enemy that feeds him familiar lies, so your husband can be free to hear His truth.
Remember that God will reveal glimpses of the key to breaking any of your husband's bad habits. As you pray for your husband's self-image, He will show you how to pray. — Stormie O'martian

My Dad used to tell me not to wish my life away by praying it was Friday, or wishing for a day that was a ways off. Soon days will pass so fast you will pray for them to slow down. Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last. — Carlos Wallace

Pray daily.
Pray daringly.
Pray desperately.
Pray determinedly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Before you ever clasped your hands to pray God was already within your heart to stay. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch
Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouch
Fishes pray for them to fly far away
Inland lakes toast to the Pelican's day — Munia Khan

Sometimes, just be. Do not think or worry, do not get angry under stress. Just pray and keep your faith in the Lord. Keep patience and see how well things will work out for you! — Sanchita Pandey

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time — Constantinos P. Cavafis

Never forget to love your enemies and pray for their well-being. — Debasish Mridha

We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good. — Sunday Adelaja

If you have to pray and sacrifice an animal to purify your heart, that is not a prayer. That is pure hatred. — Debasish Mridha

If you wanna be selfish, so be it and be acceptive of it. Don't hide in disguise and pray that no one will notice, because some people do. — Sarvesh Jain

Dear God, I don't want my fear to be a barrier to the blessings you are trying to bestow. Cast out my fear, and help me to trust your perfect love. But also grant me a full measure of wisdom. Do not let me be led astray by my own desires. If it is not your will that I pursue a relationship with Levi, I pray that you will stop me. Make your message so clear that I cannot argue it away. Protect me, Lord, and show me the way I should go. — Karen Witemeyer

I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me. — Tonny K. Brown

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face. — Jennifer Hudson Taylor

Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Prayer is a 24/7 unique dialogue between you and God('Pray without ceasing,' Thessalanians5:17NKJV). — Euginia Herlihy

Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If you do not pray, you easily become a prey! — Pedro Okoro

The miracle centered gospel gives rise to a generation of people that believes that they don't need to be good, better than anybody else but just want to pray and get favor. — Sunday Adelaja

Pray patiently.
Pray purposefully.
Pray painstakingly.
Pray perfectly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My imagination is my temple where I meditate and pray to change human consciousness and awareness so that I may find peace. — Debasish Mridha

When in trouble dial 911; pray. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Faith is not to believe
Or pray that Providence
Will help a chieve
Anything we want,
But to liv e
With confidence
That God will do for us
Everything we need. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Pray for wisdom,
read for knowledge;
do both for understanding. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Praise God for that which draws you to pray. — Amy E. Tobin

When you pray, pray for kindness, pray for compassion, and pray for love. — Debasish Mridha

They've said: PRAYING isn't enough in this situation.
Contrary to belief, prayer is all you need. If you believe that it isn't, it's only because you haven't truly experience the power of praying in your life.
Keep praying. When there was a battle, one man prayed, and God caused the sun to delay setting, so they could win the battle. (Joshua 10)
The prayers of the Righteous, they have overwhelming impacts and I encourage you to include that in whatever your next move is in this situation.
I don't march, I don't openly protest... No important reasons... I just don't... but I can do what I do best... Help behind the scenes.. and PRAY.. because, I know it works.
Peace and Blessings — Jennifer M. Malone

Even if you dont understand, pray anyways. — Jennifer M. Malone

The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer may not change our outer circumstances but inwardly it can change everything — Renae A. Sauter

I am thankful for a new day, to live, to love, to talk, to smile, to laugh to walk, to dream, to share, to write, to hope, to pray, to praise God and to fulfill my purpose of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I pray for the ability to love you without expecting any return. — Debasish Mridha

There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture. — Daniel Henderson

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston

Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam. — Heather Blanton

I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. I feel like, God doesn't want me to close my eyes and pray for Him to make me holy or for Him to make me pure; because He made me human. I feel like, God already knows I'm human ... it is I who needs to learn that. — C. JoyBell C.

We pull back our society when we tell people to only pray for miracles. — Sunday Adelaja

How cruel is the golden rule
When the lives we lived are only golden-plated?
And I knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me
Though I carried carats for everyone to see.
And I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies
And all the lovers with no time for me
And all of the mothers raise their babies
To stay away from me.
Tongues on the sockets of electric dreams
Where the sewage of youth drowned the spark of my teens
And I knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me (too heavy for me)
Though I carried carats for everyone to see (everyone to see).
And pray they don't grow up to be — Fall Out Boy

We want Allah to forgive us, yet we are not willing to forgive others.
Desire the same that you wish for your enemy,
Pray for those who harmed you with the same passion that you pray for yourself.
Be willing to open heaven's door for your enemy.
The greatest compassion lies in forgiveness. — Zarina Bibi

The world as an arena contains different tomorrows. When you see a different today, you shall think of a different yesterday and there shall come yet another and a different tomorrow! Day by day, night by night, we meet another tomorrow with different perspectives. If the good tomorrow you thought of becomes a bad today, don't worry at all and pray, another tomorrow is coming for today to be yesterday! Don't ever let desperation take the seat of inspiration within you! Keep Smiling, no matter what; for though all things go wrong, something is right somewhere! Just ponder, smile, be happy, shake of the dust and arise for another tomorrow is coming! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But I've noticed, too, that prayer for some other people is less like a spare tire and more like a road map. It is not something tucked away in small compartment and rarely used. It is used constantly. These people understand how necessary a road map is if they are to ever get where they want to go. For them, prayer isn't just for emergency use, but it guides them through the intricacies of life. — Steve Goodier

Sacred life;to sing,to praise, to worship, to pray, to study the Bible,to be grateful,to read,to write and to be kind to others. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a harsh, twisted paradox.
On one hand, you wish for no pain or suffering or misery on anyone. Yet you hope to see your children grow into individuals of compassionate and kind character. And it seems that pain, suffering, and misery adequately humble an individual, cultivating empathy and understanding for others in similar plights. While a life of ease and comfort and pleasure often fosters extravagant and selfish habits, spurring pride and blinded vision. Still, you pray for no pain or suffering on your children.
Life is a harsh, twisted paradox. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. — Satchel Paige

As a kid, I was taught that if you opened the Bible in the middle you'd probably land on the book of Psalms. And near the middle is everyone's favorite, the 23rd, there is this line: "You prepare a table before in the presence of my enemies." I don't know how many times I've read or recited this Psalm without pondering what that line actually means, but here is my take on it. When things are a bit tense, when life is not going at its best, when the potential for disaster is just around the corner, when your enemies are all around you - and even staring you down! - that's when God lays out the red-checkered picnic cloth and says, "Oooo, this is a nice place. Let's hang out here together for a while...just you and me. — David Brazzeal

I remember when I was growing up and there would be sick people in the church. I was always so sensitive to them sitting in the pews alone, and I would not pass by without saying hello. But even at those tender ages of 5 through 14, I felt like they carried the plague, and after seeing them I would turn around praying really hard to never experience sickness like that, ever. I'd pray that I wouldn't make God angry enough to curse me like that with really awful things, but I didn't think about grace. I did not understand that it does not work that way, that God's grace is so much bigger than our sin because of Jesus - but I do get it now. We go through what we do so that we can fulfill God's glory in our lives. — Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

Prayer, divine act.
Pray always. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you pray as much as you work; you achieve as much as you dream. — Keysha Jade

When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out? — Russ Scalzo

How arrogant are we to believe we're in control of anything, much less our own destiny. All we can do is pray for God's divine guidance and follow the path Home. — Robert Palasciano

Kindness is the best prayer; never forget to be kind and pray. — Debasish Mridha

Love life.
Live one day at a time.
Pray for strength and grace to accomplish your daily task. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I will not pray for health or wealth or splendor; I will pray for a higher consciousness. — Debasish Mridha

Pray FOR positive outcomes, never ON perceived dilemmas — T.F. Hodge

Never apologize for the good in your life. People who try to make you feel badly because you have been blessed are consumed by self-loathing. Wear your accomplishments proudly, be it your career, your relationship, your children, your success. True friends will bask in the glow of your shine, not pray for darkness to fall. — Carlos Wallace

Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

A prayer culture is fueled by experience not explanation. A passion to seek the Lord in prayer is more caught than taught. — Daniel Henderson

Someday
When we are wiser
When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray
Someday we may yet
Live
To live and let live
Someday
Life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
Greed will not pay
Godspeed
This bright millennium
On its way
Let it come
Someday — Alan Menken

The more I pray, the more I feel God's comfort. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'll pray for good semen. And I'll get all of my friends to pray for good semen. — Buffy Andrews

For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys. — Daniel Henderson

Dont let anybody rob you of your opportunity to pray. God is aware of who we are, and what we want to become. — Jennifer M. Malone

We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin to pray, we pick a fight with the devil at a whole new level. Yet, our calling is to be praying menaces to the enemy. — Daniel Henderson

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

When life knocks you down and you land on your knees, you are in the best position to pray. — Mitch Kynock

When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit. — Sunday Adelaja

Pray seriously.
Pray sensibly.
Pray scrupulously.
Pray selflessly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When we pray for guidance in a group, we create a positive force field and align our personal energies towards a single direction. — Catherine Carrigan

More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with. — T.F. Hodge

We should pray in the name of Jesus because He is the way. Jesus told him, 'I am the way, the truth, and life. No one comes to father except through me'(John14:6, NLT). — Euginia Herlihy

What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day. — Steve Goodier

[R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work. — Daniel Henderson

Pray sensibly.
Pray scrupulously.
Pray selflessly.
Pray seriously. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity. — E. M. Bounds

Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy. — Jared Brock

Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him. — Ikechukwu Izuakor

Pray and read your Bible daily. God has all the answers you seek — Lailah Gifty Akita

Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Pray for tomorrow — Daniel Salic

Work and Pray always been a good combination. — Amen Muffler

Anyone who prays for the death of his enemy must consider who tempted Jesus Christ, the persecution of the apostles and the Psalm 23 of David — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river
and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you. — Alysha Speer

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri

Just remember, though you may have an ample set of well-wishers who would pray for you, there would always be an extra set of prayer called out for you in some part of the world. — Sapan Saxena

Read, mediate and pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you... — Olisa Ufondu

The Blessing #2:

May love lead your eyes to look out for others,
may love lead your ears to listen to others,
may love lead your tongue to encourage others,
may love lead your hands to help others,
may love lead your mind to think of others,
may love lead your heart to feel for others,
and may love lead your soul to pray for others. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Never pray for life to be easier, but pray for courage to go on and still enjoy every moment of beauty. — Debasish Mridha

Pray as if you are fully aware that the intricate timing and rotation of every celestial entity in the universe - including the coming and going of innumerable, precious life forms - does not rest in your tiny, mortal hands. — Richelle E. Goodrich

One subtle arena of attack is in the area of pride. Praying people can become prideful about their praying. Non-participants can become prideful in their resistance. The enemy seeks to divide and conquer every initiative of prayer. — Daniel Henderson

Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't — Karen Salmansohn

Pray faithfully.
Pray fervently.
Pray fearlessly.
Pray forthrightly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

God opens doors for you, but do not expect Him to walk through them for you. He delivered the Israelites from Egypt, but they were still required to walk to the Promised Land. They did not need to pray for a miracle, the miracle was in their feet. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone ... let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer