Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

- Constantine Peter Cavafy

Best Quotes about Prayer

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Juvenal

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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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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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

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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

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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 a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Buttrick, George

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

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

Rader, Lyell

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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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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.

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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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 the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seneca