Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

- Foster, Robert D.

Best Quotes about 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

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Illich, Ivan

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

Seneca

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

Wolpe, David J.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

15.

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

Socrates

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

Juvenal

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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

18.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Saint Theresa of Jesus

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

24.

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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]

Bible

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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

Seneca

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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb

39.

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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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

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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire

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

Hippocrates

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barr, Amelia E.