Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

- Graham, Ruth

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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.

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.

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

Proverb

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Proverb

Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Hippocrates

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Herbert, George

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

Michalski, Stan

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, English

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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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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.

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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.

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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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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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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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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Brault, Robert

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Socrates

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

Illich, Ivan

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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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