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Quotes About Pray

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
~ Jesus Christ
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.
~ John Piper
rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18).
~ Stormie Omartian
When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...
~ Olisa Ufondu
Mainly it's the stories we carry with us, the tales of those who've gone before, those who've made their own map, as we will make ours. The stories and rituals passed down from generation to generation. They will help us make our map. The stories, rituals, the Spirit of God. Of these shall we be created anew. Of these three is pilgrimage: story, ritual, Spirit. How we listen and do and pray becomes the map we make.
~ Murray Bodo
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I have thought of death, said she - have wished for it - would even have prayed for it, were it fit that such as I should pray for anything.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
All any on the flagship could do was hope the other vessels were safe, pray that the other ships and their crews and passengers would survive the storm.
~ Kieran Doherty
When I know the truth, I must go to Robert. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.
~ George R.R. Martin
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. "Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words.
~ George R.R. Martin
The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. In the sept they sing for the Mother's mercy but on the walls it's the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence.
~ George R.R. Martin
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
~ Euripides
Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
~ The Desert Fathers
Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
~ William Booth
There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come!
~ General Peter Muhlenberg
Hell, any plan that added and then we pray is not a trip to Disneyland.
~ J.R. Ward
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
This non-biblical counsel drives children away from the cross. It doesn't take grace from God to ignore the oppressor. It doesn't take supernatural grace to stand up for your rights. To do good to oppressors, however, to pray for those who mistreat you, to entrust yourself to the just Judge, requires a child to come face-to-face with the poverty of his own spirit and his need of the transforming power of the gospel.
~ Tedd Tripp
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
~ Josephine Hart, Damage
But what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God.
~ Kristin Hannah
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
~ Godfrey Reggio
Secrets never leave you in peace, however much you wish or pray.
~ James Clavell
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
~ William Graham Sumner