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Quotes About Pray

All those years spent in science were in vain. Please mother, pray for me over there if you can, sing the Moorish lament for the lost soul of your poor ignorant son...
~ Nikola Tesla
Sometimes the fever subsided, but the plantation was always still there. Cora did not pray.
~ Colson Whitehead
And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world peace. The atom bomb is too terrible a weapon. It must not drop again.
~ Laurence Yep
Oh! for God's sake let me go!" cried Oliver; "let me run away and die in the fields. I will never come near London; never, never! Oh! pray have mercy on me, and do not make me steal. For the love of all the bright Angels that rest in Heaven, have mercy upon me!
~ Charles Dickens
My heart responds most warm with thine To pray and hope each day No heart can feel more deep than mine If near—or far away.
~ Samuel Woodhull, 1851
Time.... Something that's not enough left when you have more behind you than in the front of you. Life is short, love your family while they're here and pray we all know where we are going when it's over here on earth.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I'll be your daily Orator to pray that that pure sanguine complexion of yours may never be famished with pot-lucke, that you may taste till your last gasp, and live to see the confusion of both your special enemies, Small Beer and Grammar rules.
~ Thomas Nashe
Dance,' they told me, and I stood still, and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced. 'Pray,' they said, and I laughed, covering myself in the earth's brightnesses, and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel, and prayed like an orphan.
~ Wendell Berry
The only thing that makes reality is death; then they hang it on a cross, kneel down and pray to it.
~ Charles Manson
There are angels on the tree?" "Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don't we?
~ Heather Graham
Sing loud for the sunshine. Pray hard for the rain.
~ Led Zeppelin
This sort of rhythm schools us to "live from the heart" more minutes of the day. To talk to others is to also pray for them.
~ Jan Johnson
When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
~ Hudson Taylor
The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.
~ Alexander MacLaren
New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.
~ Jeremiah
Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
But now I was home. ... A roof over my head and a place to be private, to cry, to laugh, to gorge, to hope, to dream, to wallow, and to pray for things was a salve to my soul.
~ Padma Lakshmi
The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.
~ Dan Brown
Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.
~ Philip José Farmer
If . . . My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
~ Chris Fabry
Once you have seen or heard a miracle of what Jesus has done, it changes the way that you minister. You can never pray from lack again for any condition that you have read or heard about.
~ Chris Gore
Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
~ Margaret Keane
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
~ Casper Van Dien
Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it
~ Gordon B. Hinckley