When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.
Tennessee Williams
Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer.
Jamaican Proverb
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
Josh Billings
You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
Real Live Preacher
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
Constantine Peter Cavafy
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillip Brooks
Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.
Dana Carvey
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates
Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
Mother Maribel
Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
Gypsy Rose Lee
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
G. E. Lessing
Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.
Burton Hills
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Theresa of Jesus
I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
General Douglas MacArthur
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Frank Sinatra
Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther King Jr.
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
Rita Mae Brown
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
William Shakespeare
I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
William Shakespeare
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.
Lois McMaster Bujold
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out, ... The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
Frederick Warren
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Buchan
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
Prayer helps a lot. Lifting one another up in prayer, it helps a lot. All of us are going through different issues, but when we come together we pray for one another.
Gloria Mills
It's not a matter of if they show up, ... It's that (the evacuees') needs are being met. People shouldn't get discouraged if they don't come. We need to keep praying that the evacuees are in a good place and can get what they need.
Joe Keller
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
Charles Williams
There are all sorts of reasons that they don't care for me and I can accept that. I just want to be able to see my kids regularly. I prayed about it and am glad that the governor said he will at least look into it. I know there are no guarantees, but at least it's something.
Timothy Burgess
It was different. I haven't done that in a long time, but I was excited about it. I prayed on it last night. I was psyched to get out there, and I made a couple of plays.
Greg Lewis
For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
Haniel Long
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.
Abu Muhammad
We were praying nobody would find out.
Bert Brantley
Don't tell me that. We're going to have to pray for a very warm winter.
John Powers
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
W. R. Inge
There has been tons of prayer put into this project. God is going to bless this community. It isn't going to happen overnight, but what does happen is going to be good for our community.
Lloyd Smith
After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, ... That's what winners do.
Ann Jillian
This is absolutely the worst-case situation we have long feared. Pray for Louisiana citizens as this storm nears.
Andy Kopplin
It is just a worship service and its focus is a time of guided prayer.
Amanda Miller
Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.
Sushma Swaraj
I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.
Loretta Young
You have to pray to Mother Earth before you disturb the ground for construction.
Rao Chalasani
Our prayers go out to the families of the deceased, ... Hopefully this will help black people realize the folly of depending on the government or leaders and serve as a notice to avert future tragedies in other cities.
Lee Peterson
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam
I'm sad to see him go. I hope and pray we get the level of cooperation from the next director as we did from Crosby. When he saw a problem, he fixed it.
Abe Bonowitz
I don't know how we pulled that one out. We have to say our prayers of thanks on that one.
Terry Goodson
Our thoughts and prayers will be with them during this deployment just as they are with the victims of this terrible natural disaster.
Frank Murkowski
Our shut-ins and people who can't get out are praying at the same time every day for the success of our Holy Week.
Rev. Terry Peele
I was awake a long time. I just laid there, wondering if someone was going to find me ... praying that I would live ... but not wanting to live. It was probably the craziest 13 hours ... just laying there not being able to move.
Sam Warpinski
It's wonderful to know if you call them during the day with a prayer request, they're on it immediately.
Janet Kellerman
We have something to focus on -- something for everyone to pray together for one common goal, one common cause.
Michael Mills
It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
Billy Graham
When we are turning the prayer wheel, we are requesting (Buddha) to send more healing light to change the energy on the planet.
Tenzin Dhonden
Still, half of me is gone. But I thank God for what I had growing up. You don't have to be Catholic, or anything really, just pray.
Jason Peters
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin
We pray for them and their families, because this will be a very rough time for them.
Tom Akehurst
I would drive (by) there often and pray that no child would get in there and hurt themselves.
Derrick Choice
There's nothing we know about the physical universe that could account for how the prayers of someone in Washington, D.C., could influence the health of a group of people in Iowa -- nothing whatsoever.
Richard Sloan
In the final 12 to 13 minutes of the game, we were just hoping and praying that we could pick balls up that were dropping. But they did a better job picking them up, and the game was theirs at that point.
Steve Burns
How did I get to be 62? I still have a lot of energy. My prayer is that I'll have another 10 to 15 years to interpret nature.
Paul Stankard
When we think of life's complexities, it's pressures and it's disarray, we find that the best investment is to take the time to pray!
Gillis Triplett
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
She has a big heart and she's so pure. We always pray together and when I'm at the free-throw line, Natalie will look at me and give me a little sign.
Chrissey Cruz
Refreshingly original, bracingly adult, and thoroughly delightful, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is like the answer to a TV prayer you didn't know you'd made.
Robert Bianco
I can only pray that they won't meet at Government House.
Ajiravid Subarnbhesaj
We don't only give thanks and prayers for those who have fallen. We also give thanks to those that still serve.
David Gates
I got a great punch in there and I was just praying he wouldn't recover and get up from that one.
Hozumi Hasegawa
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
I am extremely concerned that there will be donor fatigue, ... This is the fifth or sixth major disaster in a span of 18 months, and we worry and we pray that the American public will continue to come through.
George Hood
We're good friends. Our wives are friends and our kids have done things together. Our prayers are certainly with him, but once the game begins we'll be trying to get as many (points) as we can. And, he understands that and expects it.
Mike Sewak
We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.
Gideon Gono
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Nat Turner
It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.
Terry Mcmillan
I just want to let the families of those involved in the accident know as well as Ms. Lopez Cruz and her unborn children that they are in my thoughts and prayers everyday as well as those of my family.
Joshua Corcran
I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground.
Lalah Hathaway
You just have to pray. You just have to have faith in the lord that she will survive this.
Lennis Dean
He hit me square in the head. I remember everything about the game until that point. The next thing I could remember, I was holding hands up in the locker room saying the prayer.
Austin Flynn
I just pray they catch them before they end up getting a child. I mean, because I was lucky. No matter how safe you think you are, you're not, because I'm not, and I thought I was. I thought I had nothing to worry about living around here.
Shay Espinoza
To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.
James Cone
I pray you'll be filled with hope as long as you possibly can.
Ruth Fisher
You know these people when they go over and you see what they are dealing with and you just pray they come home.
Capt. April Conway
One doctor said to me, 'The more people pray for you, the more energy is put out somewhere,' ... And he said, 'I'm a doctor telling you this: It works.'
Jason Robards
Some said they were praying for me, others called me bad names and were praying bad things on me. I understand all that. I don't hold anything against them.
Kirk Talley
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William James
If they (the audience) are Jewish, they can express their identity without going to church or praying. It is not about beliefs, it's about music.
Hankus Netsky
When people had problems, she prayed for them.
Barbara Christian
The Crow: Wicked Prayer.
Dennis Hopper
We ask that we get prayers from everyone and pray that it all comes out as it should.
Cruz Carder
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
We have lost a fellow officer, ... It's not something that will go away because some arrests have been made. It's like losing a family member. Once you lose them, the only thing that can cure it is time. Time and prayer.
Chris Palmer
We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.
Anne Bacon
We all just hope to keep this family in prayer and try to nurture them and be there for them spiritually.
Keith Murphy
It took a lot of praying, listening, understanding and knowing that the day was going to come. Everything is all right. This is great.
Felicia Young
He loved his job because he liked to give and help people. He told me that every time he flew, he prayed with the people on his plane.
Carl Moore
Some worshippers were leaving and others were praying inside when the explosion blasted glass all over us and smoke filled the mosque.
Ahmed Hassan
To work is to pray.
John Singer Sargent
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis
We had a prayer and we turned out the lights and just let the girls talk and console each other.
Steve Huling
This is an opportunity right here, ... You pray for situations like this. To be put in a situation where you are with a [general manager] who has followed you since high school and knows the ins and outs of your game. Not only that, but he knows about your personality. This is a great situation for me and my family and I'm going to embrace it.
Caron Butler
I was praying it wouldn't go in. We missed free throws down the wire that we should have had and defensively we made some mistakes and they exploited them. I'm just glad to be where we're at. The girls have worked hard.
Laura Romo
We've got a chance. We've got to win this week and hope North can knock off Whitley. There's a lot of hope involved in there. When we played Whitley, we had chance to beat them. But we've still got a prayer.
Larry French
We do have to come out and play ball. But we have to help the people here and the people on our team. And we have to keep praying for everyone else.
Jeremy Hamilton
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
He wanted me to express his very sincere appreciation to all of the people in the world who have expressed their prayers and support for him.
Laman Gray
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn
My wife and I prayed about it and decided this was the thing to do.
Roosevelt Kent
We have been praying since we got the news of my parents being in hospital. We hope Allah will bring both of them back to Delhi safe and sound.
Salim Ahmed
I pray Tom is right about that.
General Chuck Horner
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the woman's family.
Joe Arbona
It was a good experience for me to see missionaries and what they do. The children's English was really good. It's pretty sad to see how they live, but we just have to pray that things will get better.
Melissa Walker
We just want to say we appreciate the prayers for them, and extend our condolences and heartfelt sadness to the families.
Scott Ross
I can't even fathom what I caused in their lives. I've thought about it for years, for decades ... but I will never fully fathom it. But I will never let myself forget it, either. And I pray for them every night.
Alex Kelly
Our thoughts and prayers are with Sybil, his devoted partner in love and life, and the rest of the Stockdale family.
Vern Clark
There's nothing you can do. Once it's done, just try to prevent it. All you can do is pray.
Hitesh Patel
We were fortunate to win. We prayed as hard as we possibly could for a made free throw or something.
Dwight Freeman
I pray that you're not afraid, and I pray that you're safe and warm every night. I want you to be strong, I want you to get away if you can, and I want you to come home.
Carol Ryan
When we built our house, we didn't have much money. We prayed a lot. We love our house. Why would I sell?
Princess Wells
Our crew has an impressive record of generosity. Once again, Bonhomme Richard has come to the aid of people in need. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families, and we hope this humble contribution will make a difference.
Stephen Greene
I'm just taken aback. What a shock. Maggie is in my thoughts and prayers and I hope she gets better. I hope we hear some good news soon.
Bill Gibbons
In Jesus' life from the Father, in the immediacy and closeness of his association with him in prayer and indeed face to face, he is God's witness, through whom the intangible has become tangible, the distant has drawn near.
Joseph Ratzinger
The only thing I did was move my mark back a foot, prayed to God and tried not to overdo it.
Tomika Ferguson
We've been blessed with this opportunity to share our love and concern for others in our community through something tangible - the prayer shawl.
Diane Plotzke
Everything happens for a reason. Pray and get enough strength to move on, and the Lord will direct your path in whatever it is. People want to look back, but have the strength to move on.
Monica Brown
It might have made them uncertain, wondering, Am I so sick they had to call in their prayer team?
Charles Bethea
I might still be up there ... It's a big miracle and answer to prayer.
Jeff Moore
You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
John Bunyan
I just want that person to know how hard this is for my family, for my son. I pray everyday that she gets through this, and my biggest fear is that she won't.
Karen Casey
I was just praying to get the ball up court and get a shot off.
Billy Mitchell
Weh I was a kid I prayed every night for a bike until I figured out that that's not the way that God works, so I stole a bike and then asked him for forgiveness.
Emo Phillips
They are in my thoughts and prayers every day, as well as those of my family.
Joshua Corcran
We are also praying for t strength of the peso since only 5 percent of our capital is equity [and 95-percent debt].
Cyril Del Callar
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
Jane Wagner
One day I told him, if you do as a Muslim does every day, pray five times a day, then you do not have to work. I told him, 'Be as God made you.' He didn't say anything.
Abdul Manan
The human toll is what's important here. I pray that with God's help, and with all the ability that you have, that you see through anything that may be an obstacle to mine safety, and realize that money can't be a deterrent, nothing can be a deterrent.
Kenny Johnson
I keep her in my prayers. I don't try to make it a burden on me, every day worrying about her. I just have faith that she's doing well.
Tamba Hali
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
I hope and pray that they get everyone that's involved in this and they don't ever get out to hurt another human being.
Luhanna Chesley
All of us have seen the pictures of devastation along the Gulf Coast, and our hearts and prayers go out to those families-- especially to the people of New Orleans, which so recently hosted our National Biennial Conference. Like all Americans, we want to help, and we plan to do so by getting additional officers down to the affected areas.
Chuck Canterbury
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
Sam Levenson
When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.
Luis Palau
He taught us that family and friends are gifts to be treasured. He also taught us that we should work as if everything depended on us, and pray as if everything depended on God.
Paul Dwyer
That just shows you the power of prayer. My mom told me I was going to make it. She was like, 'I'm praying for you. God already told me it's done.' And I was like, I don't know how that's gonna be done with three sacks.
Tommie Harris
That's what my team calls me. In college, I would lead the team in prayer all the time. That's what everybody knows me for - my faith in Jesus Christ.
Roger Powell
He thought it was kind of a noble thing, and we prayed about it. He knows that God is going to take care of us.
Laura Bagsby
This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody.
Angelo Reyes
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Arthur Wellesley
This is an extremely tragic situation, and we don't know all the details. But our thoughts and prayers are with Marie and her family right now.
Joan Bonvicini
She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.
Dorothy Young
I pray thee leave, love me no more, / Call home the heart you gave me, / I but in vain the saint adore, / That can, but will not, save me.
Michael Drayton
Nothing else gives me quite so much satisfaction. ... These are people I have walked with, held hands with, prayed with. This is home for me. My shoes and my footprints are home.
Nancy Wilson
If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.
Robbie Fowler
I was just praying that it didn't go in. It looked pretty good when he released it.
Justin Bradley
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
Cokie Roberts
Let's say a prayer the injury isn't too severe. He was dominating inside. I don't know if I've seen a defensive tackle inside dominate the way he did today.
Jim Schwartz
Two months exactly after the Holy Father's death, following prayers raised by her whole community, these symptoms disappeared instantly and completely.
Monsignor Slawomir Oder
And I wanted to learn how to pray.
Aaron Neville
Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him. Conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening to what God might want to say to you.
C. Neil Strait
I'm free of it and now I just talk to other little girls and women to let them know they can get past their abuse if they would pray and trust in God.
Michelle Witcher
I would ask for you to ask your viewers to do a lot of praying for these folks and thank God that nobody did get killed.
Freeman Miller
She would have been in here praying with me.
Janice Sutton
He deserves it, he is a fantastic player. He has won everything, apart from the Champions League, which I am praying he can do.
Brian Wright
While the storm that hit this region was overwhelming, so has been the outpouring prayer and support from people around the country for those in need.
John Tyson
I feel great. I didn't have any kick in my legs in Sydney two weeks ago but I had to hold it back today. It's the old me, I've been praying for it to arrive.
Jana Pittman
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe
I pray to God it was quick, that he didn't suffer at all.
Tom Davidson
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