Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

- Graham, Ruth

Best Quotes about Prayer

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

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]

Bible

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Foster, Robert D.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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

Bible

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Proverb, English

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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

Schillerbuch

20.

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

Constantine Peter Cavafy

21.

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Juvenal

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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

Robson, Dame Flora

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

32.

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

Bible

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

35.

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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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

37.

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

G. E. Lessing

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Eckhart, Meister

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