Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Wolpe, David J.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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]

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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

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

12.

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

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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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

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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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Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

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

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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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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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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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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

38.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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.

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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 is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Proverb, Indian

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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