#praying

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

— Abraham Cahan

#fasting #god #more #please #praying

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous. ↗

— Brian Celio

#imagine #life #praying #rather #torturous

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

— Mason Cooley

#keep #mountains #moves #praying #pushing

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. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#anything #being #church #else #go

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#assume #enough #man #people #praying

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. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#clearly #fasting #fellow #fellow man #head

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. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

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

— Willie Nelson

#care #house #i #i came #just

No praying, it spoils business. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#praying #spoils

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ↗

— Jean Paul

#another #beautiful #else #forgiving #humanity