Motivational Quotes

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.

- Brooks, Phillips

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Seneca

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Hippocrates

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

Juvenal

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Cohen, Leonard

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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb, Jewish

27.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

28.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Illich, Ivan

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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.

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Augustine, St.

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

Michalski, Stan

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.