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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Hippocrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Augustine, St.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

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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

11.

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

Rader, Lyell

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

Juvenal

13.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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

Proverb, English

16.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Phillips Brooks

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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]

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

Schillerbuch

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

Socrates

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Temple, Sir William

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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