Zitat des Tages über Beten für / Pray For:
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
You always pray for a healthy child, and in this situation, Naieya was born with Spina Bifida... We had choices on the table, and choices to terminate the pregnancy. We could have went on with our lives, and that would have been it, but we decided to take on the challenge.
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.
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.
The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.
Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.
Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
At the end of the day, I pray for the best.
I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.
I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.
