Pray
See Pry.
To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
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Pray Quotations
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Khalil Gibran
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
Barack Obama
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Pray Translations
pray in Afrikaans is bid
pray in Danish is bede
pray in Dutch is bidden
pray in Finnish is rukoilla
pray in French is prions, priez, prient
pray in German is Bitte bedenken Sie doch!, beten
pray in Italian is pregano
pray in Spanish is rezar
pray in Swedish is bedja
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