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Praying Quotes - Page 18

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Oswald Chambers (2013). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character”, p.76, Discovery House

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1904). “The Outlook”

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.127, Souvenir Press

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.103

I pray because I can't help myself.

"Fictional character: C. S. "Jack" Lewis". "Shadowlands", 1993.

When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

"The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.146

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

"'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

I pray as much as possible.

"Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.