Motivational Quotes

Prayer

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

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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 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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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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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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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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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 entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Lessing, Doris

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Seneca

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Seneca

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

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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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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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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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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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Bible

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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.