Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

- Graham, Ruth

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Brault, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

10.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

11.

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

Michalski, Stan

12.

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

Juvenal

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

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

Socrates

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

Bible

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

Schillerbuch

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Eckhart, Meister

30.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Lessing, Gotthold

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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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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Hippocrates

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

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard