Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Prayer

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

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.

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

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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

Tupper, Martin

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

Herbert, George

12.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

15.

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Seneca

17.

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

Schillerbuch

18.

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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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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

Rader, Lyell

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Bible

30.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, English

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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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.

Brooks, Phillips

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Proverb

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

Robson, Dame Flora