#praying

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 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

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

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#else #everybody #everybody else #feeling #i

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#eye #god #him #hit #i

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

#chair #get #give #like #praying

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#down #god #means #out #prayer

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis. ↗

— Kesha

#destroy #hobby #i #i do #like