Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Prayer

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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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

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

Herbert, George

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

21.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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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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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Socrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

Juvenal

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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 without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]

Bible

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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Oscar Wilde

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Illich, Ivan

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Taylor, Jeremy

49.

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

Cohen, Leonard

50.

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