Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

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.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Michalski, Stan

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

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

Tupper, Martin

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Lessing, Gotthold

23.

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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Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hippocrates

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

42.

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

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

Proverb

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

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Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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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 the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Herbert, George

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

Wolpe, David J.

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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.