Quotes About Community

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She'd go in, light a candle, she'd pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.

Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.

I pray every day for my health, the health of my family and the health of all West Virginians. I encourage everyone else to do the same.

We pray every day that the Good Lord will continue to bless our great state and our great people.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

We need to pray for our brethren around the world.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

At college, I became friends with this girl who was a 'cool Christian.' They did street dance, then they prayed. It became my whole world. I had Christian friends. I went to Christian parties.

It's about showing the kids from your city that you are worth believing in. It's about being the man your family prayed you'd be.

When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I'm actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I'm not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it's something I should be doing.

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

I'm for prayer in schools.

If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.

My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community. He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was not religious.

I had people having prayer circles for me at the age of 10.

A lot of people said they prayed for me. I felt their prayers.

When you spend almost two years out talking to people, praying with them, and really finding out some of those tough issues that are impacting them, it makes a lasting impression on you.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

What I'm really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don't want police to leave; we want policing in our world. But I think that people aren't comfortable with each other.

I remember being in my house from when I was, like, five to when I was, like, 12. When hurricanes would happen, you just hold hands, and you say, 'You know what, we have each other. We're praying,' and this roof can literally peel off of your house.

When we are truly praying, then we can begin to see Christ in our neighbour; when we are really praying, we can begin to live for the Father.