Sometimes we pray in our heads and we never get a real opportunity to solidify what it is that we're praying for or what we're praying about. So once you write it down, it's like a flow. It comes out and you solidify the thought or the idea or the request.

- Iyanla Vanzant

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

- Poe Ballantine

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

- Nik Wallenda

She died praying that she might die.

- Mary Boykin Chesnut

My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

- Magic Johnson

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

- Lara Flynn Boyle

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

- Lily Tomlin

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

- Karen Kain

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

- Juanes

I don't believe in praying to win.

- John Wooden

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

- Anita Hill

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

- Gypsy Rose Lee

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

- Elizabeth Vargas

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

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

- E. Stanley Jones

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

- Dave Gahan

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

- Charles Williams

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.

- Beck

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

- Austin Phelps

I thought they loved me, and they would scarcely have known it if I had died. All through our troubles, I was comforted with the thought that the brethren in Maulmain and America were praying for us, and they have never once thought of us.

- Adoniram Judson