Pray Quotes

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy

Men, Easy, Lives

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Religion, Spirit

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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore

Fearless, Sheltered, Dangers

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

Humanity, Common, Satan

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden

Friendship, Good, Art

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips

Work, Him, Night

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu

Eyes, Said, Bible

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Human, Earth, Race

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Great, Travel, Forward

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

Love, Good, Rain

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin

Work, Live, Tomorrow

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Khalil Gibran

Joy, Days, Might

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine

Work, God, Everything

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh

Time, Home, Death

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
Billy Graham

Attitude, Heart, Body

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Beauty, Nature, Strength

Pray, and let God worry.
Martin Luther

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
Barack Obama

God, Best, Help

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Able, Endure

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Norman Vincent Peale

Success, Work, Four

Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Richard M. Nixon

Down, Give, Find

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther

Alone, Heart, Help

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale

Attitude, Him, Personal

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold

Great, Loneliness, Live

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Junipero Serra

Life, Health, God

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yourself, Keep, Anyone

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin Luther

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Charles Spurgeon

Religion, Live, Long

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