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Praying Quotes - Page 28

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

Howard Zinn
Use, Praying, Atonement

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Prayer, Real, Praying
Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.136, Harmony

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion, Praying, Disgrace

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Warrior, Saint, Praying
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.181, e-artnow

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

Emily Giffin
Moving, Ordinary Days, Praying

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

Edward McKendree Bounds
Heaven, Holiness, Praying

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

Corrie Ten Boom
Miracle, Resistance, Praying

Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.

Christopher Marlowe
Love, Men, Praying
Christopher Marlowe (1981). “The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Edward II. Doctor Faustus. The first book of Lucan. Ovid's Elegies. Hero and Leander. Miscellaneous poems”

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

Charles Schumer
Needs, Praying, Great Power

You cannot pray them out of hell.

Bill Murray
Scary, Praying, Hell

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Emptiness, Existentialism, Praying

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Andy Murray
Prayer, Men, Praying To God

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Alexander Theroux
Looks, Praying, Lord
Source: www.raintaxi.com

...we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.

Adolf Hitler
Blessing, People, Praying
Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Youssou N'Dour
Praying, Modern, Educated
"A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Yoko Ono
Wish, Messages, Praying

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

Yann Martel
Christian, Want, Praying
Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.80, Vintage Canada

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

Willie Nelson
House, Care, Praying

Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

William Shakespeare
Fairness, Praying, Speak
William Shakespeare (1791). “THE PLAYS OF William Shakspeare, COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.: CONTAINING KING JOHN, RICHRARD II. HENRY IV. PART I. HENRY IV. PART II. HENRY V. THE ENGRAVINGS TO THIS VOLUME ARE, TWO SCENES TO EACH PLAY, AND TWO ALLEGORIES. ALLEGORIES. 1. YOUTH ATTENDING THE DICTATES OF SHAKSPEARE. 2. THE TRAGIC AND COMIC MUSE ADORNING THE STATUE OD SHAKSPEARE”

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Wish, Praying
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.184

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.

William Shakespeare
Done, Praying, Christianity
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Christmas, Glasses, Praying
William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.424

Pray God, keep us simple.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Simple, Simplicity, Praying

He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.

William Gurney Benham
Prayer, Praying, Cease

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

William Gurnall
Prayer, Mean, Praying
William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.517

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