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

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Oscar Wilde

We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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.

Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Bible

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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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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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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 and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bible

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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Seneca