Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Barr, Amelia E.

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

Bible

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

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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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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Juvenal

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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

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

Brault, Robert

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Augustine, St.

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.