Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Augustine, St.

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverb

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

Temple, Sir William

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rader, Lyell

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Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Selden, John

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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Juvenal

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

Herbert, George

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bible

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

Tupper, Martin

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

Wolpe, David J.