Quotes About Pray

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

Picture to yourself, oh fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig. Picture her to yourself, and ere you be old, learn to love and pray!

Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath. An irate killer stamps in to the tribunal—"Use your heads, give us a bloody chance, can't you? We can't keep up." So the prisoners are waved away airily by their judges—"Go, you're free." Outside the door a steady man waits to fell them. Freedom is the last thing they know.

The whole world around us has the disease which we've feared for so long. We can only pray that the natural goodness of men will fight off the plague before it spreads too far.

And I pray, if there are ever two children who come visit my home here, that you will give them the courage to say shalom, so that they will know they do not have to remain in hiding. Amen

My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.

Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

What if rather than avoiding brokenness we embraced it? Welcomed it? And even prayed for it? "God, break me.

So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away; I will go down to the chapel and pray.

Set your strong intention, work hard, and pray, slowly but surely, what you strive for will come to be. This is God's law." -127

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Put your trust in God, and pray for guidance. And when in doubt, eat.

Always make sure your enemy is dead. If you must fight an Ultramarine, pray you kill him. If he is still alive, then you are dead. 'You are dead, Lorgar. You are dead. You are dead.

I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

It is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

I know that it wont be easy for both of us to lead severed lives but I also know that we did not mean to hurt each other. We were blessed to spend so much time together and I thank God for that. I want you to know you can always count on me and trust me like before and I pray for us to find the happiness again.

We all are here for limited time period instead of wasting the time on hatred, fights, ego why not use the time to love, pray, live and laugh.

We may be very sure that men fall in private long before they fall in public. They are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world. Like Peter, they first disregard the Lord's warning to watch and pray; and then, like Peter, their strength is gone, and in the hour of temptation they deny their Lord. The world takes notice of their fall, and scoffs loudly. But the world knows nothing of the real reason.

There are imperfections in our best works: we do not love God so much as we are bound to do, with all our hearts, mind, and power; we do not fear God so much as we ought to do; we do not pray to God but with many and great imperfections. We give, forgive, believe, live, and hope imperfectly; we speak, think, and do imperfectly; we fight against the devil, the world, and the flesh imperfectly. Let us, therefore, not be ashamed to confess plainly our state of imperfections.

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). This is to show the mind of Christ. This is the right way to heap coals of fire on an enemy's head and to melt foes into friends (Romans 12:20).

In justification, our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful. In sanctification, our own works are of great importance, and God instructs us to fight, watch, pray, strive, try, and work. Justification is a finished and complete work, and a person is perfectly justified the moment he believes. Sanctification is an imperfect work, comparatively, and will never be perfected until we reach heaven.

In justification, our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful. In sanctification, our own works are of great importance, and God instructs us to fight, watch, pray, strive, try, and work.