Praying Quotes

No praying, it spoils business.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

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.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

She died praying that she might die.

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

The Indian race are waiting and praying.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.