Prayed Quotations

I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?

I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.

I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.

I was hanging onto that tree and I prayed. Dude, I prayed so good I thought I might become a preacher.

When I look at you I see flawless perfection-I know somedays you think my eye needs more training- but it doesnt-I know what I see-you are a flawless beauty and time only serves to prove this right.You are my one true love-the one I have prayed for-the one I struggled and fought to believe could ever exist-and you are here.It was worth it-waiting for you has been worth it-fighting for you has been worth it.You have redefined happiness for me-I am overjoyed that you chose me.I love you.

Let mortification be especially directed to strike at those sins that act your master sins-that at, most prevalent and predominant in your heart, that yet you have most prayed against and are least able to resist, that strongly assault you and most easily beset you and are masters over you.

My family prayed about it and we felt like we got the answers, so I might as well commit. It was probably just the family atmosphere. I felt comfortable around all the players, the coaches, everyone.

Nothing else gives me quite so much satisfaction. ... These are people I have walked with, held hands with, prayed with. This is home for me. My shoes and my footprints are home.

I got the ball, was open and had to take it myself and hope for the best. My form was all right. I just prayed that it would go in.

We had been searching and hoping for some solution for the College for years. Now I know that Howards a more secular kind of guy. He told me once that its sometimes hard to distinguish between praying and whining, but this transformation is precisely what many of us have prayed for each in our own way and those prayers have been answered.

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

I don't think I've ever prayed so much in my life. But, hey, it worked. . . . It was fun and not fun. I trust my teammates, but being on the bench with the game on the line is one of the worst feelings in the world. I'm just so proud of my teammates.

I had just prayed and hoped, and I seen the boss coming in with the trucks and trailers. We had only had communication with the police--we lost our cell phones and other phones the first night.

I have a feeling he's collected hundreds of thousands if not millions from people who need the money the most. He prayed on people with good hearts and good will. To give to charity to help the needy; it's not only part of the human nature, it's part of the faith.

I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life,

I am grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words. To the British soldiers who risked their lives to rescue us, to the government of Canada who sent a team to Baghdad to help secure our release, to all those who thought about us and prayed for us, for all those who spoke for us when we had no voice, I am forever and truly grateful. It's great to be alive.

He loved his job because he liked to give and help people. He told me that every time he flew, he prayed with the people on his plane.

I was dreaming that this would be the way I'd find out - that she'd call me in the middle of the night like this. She sounded great. I just want to thank everyone who's prayed and given us support through this time, and we're obviously looking forward to some private time with Jill.

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

St. Anthony is my patron saint. That's who my son was named after. We went into St. Anthony's Chapel and prayed for his help in finding Anthony.

Really? So I did get some kind of record, huh? It's great to show how dominant I am this year, running fast times consistently and winning every race. I prayed before the season to be dominant, and it's all come together.

I talked to my family back home and my mom and we just prayed on it. It was something I went through and I'm not going to sit here and say it was something I'm glad I went through ? but it's helped me.

Just to be around this great group of people, I have grown up a lot, thought things out and have prayed about it. I have come to the conclusion that I am not finished yet. There are a lot of things I want to accomplish not only as a player but as a person.

To leave a great school like USC is hard. Any time you do something like that, it's hard. But I prayed about it, thought about it, and the opportunity's there and I'm trying to savor that.

We were just praying like we had never prayed before. God kept his hand on us.

We have all prayed in our own ways ... There's been a lot going on.

You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.

When Takeo called me, it was like going along with what I had already prayed to God for. And to start the football game the way we started, I was laughing on the sideline because it felt like God was answering my prayers.

We couldn't have kids of our own, so we prayed to have one. Now we have five. Love doesn't see color.

We prayed a lot about it as did a lot of other people and finally concluded that this was something that we needed to do.

We prayed for the families. We prayed that he would get tired of running. We prayed that he would give himself up and we prayed that it would be a peaceful surrender, and that's how it happened,

We prayed for them in the locker room.

We prayed over teeth. We really did. The services also gave us a time of reflection each evening, which helped us a lot.

We prayed throughout the building to ask God to make it pleasing to him.

We plan to seek out those that want to be served and counseled and prayed with and do whatever we can do to assist,

We let him know we were thinking of him and praying for him. The kids wrote very uplifting notes, drew pictures and prayed for his safe return.

We were rubbish for 44 minutes. The best thing that could happen to us was that we were booed off. I hoped and prayed that we would be otherwise we would have been kidding ourselves.

Throughout our history in times of testing, Americans have come together in prayer to heal and ask for strength for the tasks ahead, ... So I've declared Friday, Sept. the 16th, as a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. I ask that we pray - as Americans have always prayed in times of trial - with confidence in His purpose, with hope for a brighter future, and with the humility to ask God to keep us strong so that we can better serve our brothers and sisters in need.

Every day I was in captivity, I prayed for a miracle, ... It was delivered in the form of Rev. Jackson and his delegation.

Everybody takes those shots during practice, but I had to take it during the game. I just prayed it would go in.

We were fortunate to win. We prayed as hard as we possibly could for a made free throw or something.

There are all sorts of reasons that they don't care for me and I can accept that. I just want to be able to see my kids regularly. I prayed about it and am glad that the governor said he will at least look into it. I know there are no guarantees, but at least it's something.

I've thought about it a lot, and talked with my coaches and prayed about it a lot, and pretty much come to the decision that I'm going to probably leave.

I've thought about it and talked it over with the coaches and my family, and I prayed about it a lot. I pretty much came to a decision that I'm going to probably leave.

I've never prayed so hard in my life. I couldn't watch TV anymore. I felt so sorry for those people.

We were on prayer lists (at area churches) and we also prayed a lot - we believe that helped.

We all wanted another shot at them. We knew we played a bad game the last time and we all prayed that we'd get another chance.

Every time I had a thought, I was praying, I've never prayed so much in my life.

We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.

Originally, I prayed for an increase in attendees. We started with only five people and now that there's near 100, it feels real. It is real.

One cardinal told me while he was listening to the votes being counted, he said three rosaries. And I said two, and the third said, 'Well I prayed mine with greater piety, and it was just one.'

As players, we all stood back, took one knee and prayed for Thomas.

The only thing I did was move my mark back a foot, prayed to God and tried not to overdo it.

There are groups trying to instigate people. We don't want any violence. We prayed for the dead and peace in the city. We appealed to people not to pay heed to rumors.

This will effectively be a godsend for small business owners particularly our constituents. They have repeatedly pleaded, prayed and demanded a product that is affordable and answers the need for healthcare.

I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.

This is certainly not the outcome that we had hoped for and prayed for. So again our hearts and prayers go out to the families.

I just always watched TV and believed I could play Division I. I prayed about it and talked to my pastor about it.

After we prayed about it, thought about it, we were at peace with this and everything has fallen into place.

In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

I knew right away. To be honest, I hoped for the best. I prayed right away. But I knew as soon as I landed it was bad. I heard it buckle. I heard it crumble.

I knew we had prayed for a wife, but this was a little too fast.

I'm very happy today. We've prayed for this day for years.

I oppose same-sex marriage, and I have struggled and prayed about the best course of action I can take, on behalf of Arkansans, to ensure the sanctity of marriage exists only between a man and woman.

I'm not surprised by the way these kids are. When I recruited them I knew that these were special kids. I just prayed that we could get them to commit. And how excited I am that we're going to have them for more years. The fact that they're poised when it matters ... over the course of the season those two guys have done incredible things. When you look at them as a pair, I challenge you to find a freshman combination anywhere that's doing the things they're doing.

I'm paid to be perfect. And on that play I wasn't perfect, and B.J. wasn't able to bail me out. I prayed the whole game that point wouldn't come back to bite us, and it did. I totally take responsibility for that.

If you prayed for a white Christmas, you should have been more specific.

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

As soon as he went down I prayed for him and hoped for all of the best for him. I was watching it. It's always kind of sickening to see that happen but I know that Carson is a strong guy. He went through five years at SC with some ups and downs but he came out on top.

Everybody wants to be hoisting the Larry O'Brien Trophy and I'm no different. But you have to appreciate every role you get. I got down on my knees a lot of years and prayed for this NBA opportunity, so it's something I never take for granted. But as a 12-year veteran, the most important thing is winning. The personal goals and ego go out the window.

It's really funny because it was already in my mind to come in anyway. I prayed about it. It was just time. I knew this team could be special. I just felt like it was my time to come in. Tim made that offer as a gesture of goodwill when he didn't know me. It's all going to work out. I believe in that.

It's up in the air. I've prayed about it a lot and I'm just following my heart. I'm going to look at what's out there. It's just time for me to do this.

The Christian Mission does well ... and they have helped lots of homeless people. But the New Life Program cannot go on out there where we live ... I have thought hard about it, prayed hard about it, and talked to my grandfather about it. We cannot have this in our neighborhood.

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

I just threw it up and prayed it would go in, and it went in. It was a big momentum swing for us going into halftime.

I hoped and prayed that he got a shot to play one last time. He's recovering real well, he's coming along well. That's him. You can't hold Vernell down too long. He's a tough guy.

I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

I prayed for a miracle tonight and I got it.

I prayed for it. The ground is so dry.

I prayed. I prayed she wouldn't die as a result of my treatment. And that if I died, my family would remember me.

I prayed over my son like I do every night to have the angels watch over him. They must have heard me.

I prayed that somehow he would plead guilty.

I didn't know if I wanted to make the commitment. I prayed about it, but I didn't know if God wanted me to go that route. My parents were saying, 'Go for it.' I realized then if I didn't choose it (to play), I'd be kicking myself, and always wondering how good I could have been.

They have scattered to other places. In a lot of cases other morning shows have benefited. Howard's going away is something that other morning shows have prayed for for years.

I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.

After careful thoughts and prayers, I have decided to forgo my senior season at Auburn to pursue my dream of a career in the NFL. I returned home following the bowl game and had long talks with my parents and prayed a lot about my future. I also received the coaches' input and weighed that into my decision. I feel like this is the right opportunity for me to take my game to the next level." ()

Then Arjuna, filled with wonder and his hairs standing on end, bowed his head to the Lord and prayed with folded hands.

The true heroes of this effort are the mine rescue teams who risk their own lives to save those of their fellow coal miners. At the darkest hour of this rescue effort, we prayed for 13 miracles. Despite our grief and despair at the loss of our 12 co-workers, we want to celebrate the one miracle that was delivered.