Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Socrates

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Augustine, St.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Juvenal

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

Proverb

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

19.

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb

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

G. E. Lessing

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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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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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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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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

Real Live Preacher

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Seneca

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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.

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

Temple, Sir William

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Illich, Ivan

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent