Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
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!
There were questions I didn't have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible 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.
The Indian race are waiting and praying.
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
After the first couple of years recording, I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.
Sometimes we pray in our heads and we never get a real opportunity to solidify what it is that we're praying for or what we're praying about. So once you write it down, it's like a flow. It comes out and you solidify the thought or the idea or the request.
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.
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.
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.
I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.
The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.
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.
With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed.
No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.
As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.
I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
Are you living for the things you are praying for?
In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was.
