Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Prayer

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

Bible

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Eddy, Mary Baker

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

West, Charles C.

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Taylor, Jeremy

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

33.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Seneca

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

43.

If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

Bible

44.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Brooks, Phillips

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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

Townsend, Peter

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks