You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.
Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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.
No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.
I have absolutely no doubt that if you are a praying Christian, your faith in God is what is carrying you, through both the good times and the hard times. However, if you are not a praying person, you are carrying your faith - you are trying to make your faith work for you apart from your source of power - and trying to carry the infinite is very exhausting.
Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.
I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.
Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.
Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love.
Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown.
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.
But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?