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

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.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Proverb, English

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Tomlin, Lily

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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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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It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.

Kuhn, Isobel

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Herbert, George

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

Juvenal

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Proverb

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Augustine, St.

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Milton, John

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard