Quotes About Prayer

And when it comes to beauty - and goodness too - she lays over them all. I hain't ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for her, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust.

Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performance of the pieties enjoined by the Church.  More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage, stop to pray before cutting his throat; more than once I had seen a noble, after ambushing and despatching his enemy, retire to the nearest wayside shrine and humbly give thanks, without even waiting to rob the body.

If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.

FUCK. A great by-the-bootstrap prayer or curse of you prefer, depending on how you look at it, or use it, suited perfectly for hurling at the skies or at the world, or sometimes, if said just right, for uttering with enough love and fire, the woman beside you melts inside herself

You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore. I don't want to pray that Max is alive and safe. Or Alex Steiner. Because the world does not deserve them.

I never did get around to praying for myself, did I? Maybe that's what was behind it, though. Myself. Maybe the only reason I'd prayed for others to begin with was to bring myself good fortune. Was that true? Was it?

tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.

Je ne veux plus prier pour que M. soit sain et sauf. Ni A.S. Parce que le monde ne les mérite pas.

Say a prayer at the stones of home

Rosa was sitting with the accordion, praying. 'Make them come back alive,' she repeated. 'Please, Lord, please. All of them.' Even the wrinkles around her eyes were joining hands.

Amen,' I say, delayed, and now, like many of these people, I pray for the first time in years.

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Oh, who shall know the might Of the words he utter'd there? The fate of nations there was turned By the fervor of his prayer. "But wouldst thou know his name Who wandered there alone? Go, read enroll'd in Heaven's archives, The prayer of Washington.

Isn't it odd that people pray every day over the tiniest things—the weather, a green light, a baseball game, things they can't change at all? But how come nobody prays when they are faced with a decision? When there's a difficult choice to make, don't you think God would like to help you make it?

which We have blessed, that We might show him some of Our Signs.'12 In contrast, the importance of Jerusalem for ews derived from the site of their two destroyed Temples, towards which the Jews still pray daily. Jerusalem, not mentioned in the Koran, is mentioned

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Prayer is a marvelous and necessary supplement of our feeble efforts, but it is a dangerous substitute.

His mother, in contrast, prayed in church.

Please, Lord, answer this one small prayer. Not just for me, but for Cara. Help me play with my child once more before I die. Bring my Cara home.

The prayer "Lead me not into temptation" means: "Let me not see who I am.