#praying

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cookie #cute #faithfulness #funny #god

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal. ↗

— Yann Martel

#elevation-after-prayers #life-of-pi #praying #salah #life

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams... ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #faith #light #prayer #praying-mind

I'm praying for you, Mary. I want you to live forever. ↗

— Truman Capote

#music

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#cancer #comes #done #enlighten #enlightened

I don't believe in praying to win. ↗

— John Wooden

#i #praying #win

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. ↗

— Whitley Strieber

#associated #completion #egyptian #ends #every

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. ↗

— William Gurnall

#faithful #last #longer #lost #never

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#belief #feeling #mind #prayer #praying