Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Cockburn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

16.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

17.

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

Michalski, Stan

18.

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

Bible

19.

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.

20.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

22.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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

Schillerbuch

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

Cockburn, Alexander

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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

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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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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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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

42.

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

Temple, Sir William

44.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

45.

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

Illich, Ivan

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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.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

49.

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

Bible

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